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Chap. LV.
BREGENTVED.
377
of the royal household—put the servants on board-wages,
&c. Oxe introduced the crayfish, “Taske krabbe,”
into Denmark, as well as other sorts of fish, and a
species of frog which went by the name of Peter Oxe’s
frog. He and his masculine wife Mette Rosenkrantz
were interred in the Frue Kirke of Copenhagen, long
since destroyed by fire. After passing into the female
line, Gisselfeld was at last given or came into the
possession of Christian Gyldenløve, son of Christian V. by
Mrs. Moth, a brave and gallant man. He served in
Italy under the Prince Eugene, commanding the Italian
troops; but met with an early death, and by his will
bequeathed the manor of Gisselfeld and its broad lands
to found a convent for poor but noble maidens.
The head of the Danneskiold family enjoys the
office of Administrator of Gisselfeld, and the eldest
daughter of that house is born hereditary Abbess of
the convent. As for the nuns, they are flitting about
the world somewhere.
One half-hour’s drive brings us to Bregentved, the
princely residence of Count Moltke, the much
respected ex-minister. If the approach were only freed
from stables, outhouses, &c., it would be perfect. The
gardens—prettily laid out in the French style, the long
clipped allées with fountains and statues, staircases of
marble and terraces—reminded me of Versailles
without its stiff formality. Then, on the opposite side of
the hedge, stand on the lake’s bank two picturesque,
creeper-embowered cottages, all stripes and gables.
England, the country of garden, turf, and sward, could
produce nothing prettier. On a height above an
artificial cascade stands an obelisk to the memory of King
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