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MAGDALEN
past and present breathe majestically upon you.
Here the lords of Krajek once held sway over the Picards,[1] and pious songs then hovered over the treetops in the park. From that tower pensive Rudolf, the emperor, used to watch the course of the stars with master Tycho.[2] Banner[3] sat here in judgment,—the people to this time remember those Swedish scourges and his minions. The duchess of Berry had had her gallant adventures in the park during moonlit nights,—and the patrician daughters up to this day like to visit those places, where they blush and sigh.
The park was thrown open to the town. The owner of the castle lived far away. His superintendent, a stolid German, dwelt
- ↑ Corruption of “Beghards”; thus the opponents of the Church were called in Bohemia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The lords of Krajek were the defenders of the Brotherhood.
- ↑ Tycho de Brahe, Danish astronomer.
- ↑ Jan Gustavson Banner, or Banér, Swedish field-marshal under Gustavus Adolphus.
