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366
HERLUFSHOLM.
Chap. LIV.
the very document whose loss had well-nigh caused the
dissolution of the budding academy.
We visited the dormitories, each with its fifteen beds—
boys arranged according to their ages and size—name on
each bed—the washing-rooms, studies, gymnasium, and
salle d’armes; many are the portraits of the worthy
founders. Old Bridget looks well capable of smashing a
table or a skull if she felt inclined—the last person in
the world one would care to meet with on an excursion
from the land of spirits. She was lady of honour to
Queen Dorothea, and is said to have contributed more
to the establishment of the Deformation than any one in
Denmark, for, when Hans Tausen first preached the
doctrines of Luther, she it was who induced Ronnøv,
the Bishop of Zealand, not to treat the matter harshly.
(Ronnøv was an admirer of Bridget before he entered
into holy orders.) Lastly, we visit the chapel, where
behind the altar lie the splendid black and white marble
monuments of the founders ; better kept they might be,
and should be, for it is little to the credit of the
authorities to allow them to be mutilated, and made
resting-places for brooms and brushes.
Small boy brings us a cannon-ball, most
uncomfortable affair, with a spike projecting from one end of
it; he dragged it out from among some rubbish—the
very ball from which the gallant old Admiral met his
death-wound in a conflict with the Swedes in 1565.*
* When about to start on this last expedition, a friend remonstrated
with him on again risking his life after such long service. Troll e replied,
“ If I lose this life, I enter another. Do you know why we are called
gentlemen, and why we wear chains of gold; why we possess
lordships, and expect more respect from others? It is because we have
the satisfaction to see our peasants live in peace, while we, with our
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