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she? The cloistered sister Elizabeth, daughter
of the Holstein Count, and once the bride of
King Hakon of Norway. Sweet creature! she
proudly – but not with unbecoming pride –
advanced in her bridal dress, and with her court
ladies, up to her royal consort. Then came King
Valdemar, who by force and fraud stopped the
voyage, and induced Hakon to marry Margaret,
then eleven years of age, who thereby got the
crown of Norway. Elizabeth was sent to Vadstene
cloister, where her will was not asked.
Afterwards when Margaret – who justly occupies a
great place in the history of Scandinavia, but
only comparatively a small one in the hearts –
sat on the throne, powerful and respected, visited
the then flourishing Vadstene, where the Abbess
of the cloister was St. Bridget’s grand-daughter,
her childhood’s friend, Margaret kissed every
monk on the cheek. The legend is well known
about him, the handsomest, who thereupon
blushed. She kissed every nun on the hand,
and also Elizabeth, her, whom she would
only see here. Whose heart throbbed loudest
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