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Chap. LIV.
HVITFELDTS DANCE OF DEATH.
367
But really the authorities—for we all know how
immoveable learned corporations are all the world over—
have made a move of late years; they have closed
the coffin of Denmark’s Lord Chancellor and
historian, Hvitfeldt, who is here interred.* Old
Herlufs-holmians recollect the time when, in the heyday of
their youth and spirits, though perhaps not grace, they
—on mischief bent—uncovered the sarcophagus of the
old chronicler, dragged him from his resting-place, and,
each giving him a hand, waltzed him round and round
the church—a living Dance of Death, not painted in the
designs of Cranach, or Hans Hemling
either—irreverent monkevs!
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The evening is bright and autumnal; our young
guides conduct us by a new way through the forest
towards Nestved. We pass through their summer
playground, a waving canopy of foliage overhead, not to be
penetrated by the sun’s rays. This forest is very
charming, most enjoyable, doubly so to youth; and then,
having taken leave of the little fellows with that mysterious
pressure of the hand, a sort of freemasonry which makes
a visit from “ friends of home ” extra acceptable, we
dismiss them to their tuck-shop, bull’s-eyes, hardbake,
and toffy. May angels watch over their digestion !
One advantage have Sorø and Herlufsholm over our
public schools of Eton and Harrow—recollect I speak
king, defend our country. If we wish for what is sweet, we must also
taste the bitter.” It was Herluf who commenced the collection of
chronicles of which his nephew Hvitfeldt later made use.
* He died at Herlufsholm 1G08. Hvitfeldt was sent ambassador to
the Court of Queen Elizabeth to restore the insignia of the Garter at
the death of King Frederic II. His History of the Danish Monarchy
extends from Dan Mikillati to Frederic II., and was edited and
continued by Resen.
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