Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark: Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina, grevinde
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Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark: Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685
Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina, grevinde
Denmark -- History -- Christian V, 1670-1699 -- Sources; Denmark -- History -- Frederick III, 1648-1670 -- Sources; Princesses -- Denmark -- Biography; Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina, grevinde, 1621-1698 -- Imprisonment; Women political prisoners -- Denmark -- Biography
The husband of our lady purposed to remain some time in Pomerania,
and the Queen lent him a vessel to convey him thither. Having been
three days at sea, the wind carried them towards Dantzig, and not
being able to enter the town, for it was too late, they remained
outside the gates at a low inn. An adventure fit for a novel here
happened to our lady. A girl of sixteen, or a little more, believing
that our lady was a young man, threw herself on her neck with
caresses, to which our lady responded, and played with the girl, but,
as our lady perceived what the girl meant, and that she could not
satisfy her, she turned her over to Charles, a man of their suite,
thinking he would answer her purpose; he offered the girl his
attentions, but she repelled him rudely, saying, she was not for him,
and went again to our lady, accosting her in the same way. Our lady
got rid of her, but with difficulty however, for she was somewhat
impudent, and our lady did not dare to leave her apartment. For the
sake of amusing you, I must tell you, what now occurs to me, that in
the fort before Stade, the name of which has escaped me, our lady
played with two soldiers for drink, and her husband, who passed for
her uncle, paid the expenses; the soldiers, willing to lose for the
sake of gaining the beer, and astonished that she never lost, were,
however, civil enough to present her with drink.
We must return to Dantzig. The husband of our lady, finding himself
near Thoren, desired to make an excursion there, but his design was
interrupted by two men, one who had formerly served in Norway as
Lieutenant-Colonel, and a charlatan who called himself Dr. Saar, and
who had been expelled from Copenhagen. They asked the Mayor of the
town to arrest these two persons, believing that our lady was Ebbe
Wl....[21] They were warned by their host that these persons said
they were so-and-so, and that these gentlemen were at the door to
prevent their going out. Towards evening they grew tired of keeping
guard, and went away. Before dawn the husband of our lady went out of
the house first, and waited at the gate, and our lady with the two
servants went in a coach to wait at the other gate until it was
opened; thus they escaped this time.
[21] That is, Ebbe Ulfeldt,--a relative of Corfitz who left Denmark
in 1651 and afterwards lived in Sweden.
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