At one side of the cross devoutly kneel Otto Brahe and his five sons: first Lerdi (the learned) Tycho; then Knut, Sten, and Axel-Axel who felt his brother's study of the stars as a sad disgrace to his nobility; lastly, Jorgen, the admiral. Opposite kneels the lady Beata, with her daughters, five in number, among them the learned Sophia. The face of Otto is injured, of Tycho's scarcely a vestige remains; Sten, who succeeded his father as Governor of Helsingborg Castle, a fair young man, resembles the astronomer in person. They kneel, clad alike in black armour, wearing across the breast a scarf red and white-Danish colours; while their plumed helmets, and mailed gauntlets ranged crossways, lie near them.

This altarpiece should be restored, instead of lying neglected and forgotten; but "nul n'est prophète dans son pays," and Tycho Brahe, the learned, was always ill-treated in his own native country. From the chapel walls are suspended fine repoussé sconces, used for early morning service in the winter.

Tycho founded a paper manufactory in the neighbourhood; beyond this he was far too occupied with things on high to attend to the peasantry of his domain, from among whom he chose his wife. Of her family nothing is known; among the wooden crosses in this village cemetery the name of Tycho is still a favourite; Tyke, and Tyke's dotter,-names, maybe, handed down from father to son in honour of the great astronomer.

gravestones of the awakened dead were marked Stockholm, Upsala, Malmö, divided off into sheep and goats according to the supposed virtues or vices of the occupants of the respective cities.

A pelting rain fell on our journey homewards; we try a short cut, and, losing our way, fear an accident like that of yesterday; but our peasant-boy knows his horses, and they know him. We gain the high road in safety, and by one o'clock are safely housed in Landskrona.

CHAPTER X.

Drog jeg of Christian IV. The village of Rous - Sven FieldingHelsingborg and its lazy natives - Anders Bille and the English minister John Innes the Scotchman - Christian III. and his St. Dunstan's tin potten - Fire-clay works at Hoganäs -Night and Day.

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VOYAGE TO HELSINGBORG.

It was evening when we quitted Landskrona, not this time by land, after the manner of Christian IV., who notes in his journal, "Drog jeg fra Landskrona til Helsingborg," and "could not cross the Sound for a storm; three hundred vessels lay waiting there"-the waters were calm as a mirror. We coast by the village of Rous, oft written Roos, and Ros, where, according to old tradition, Roland the Brave founded a church. A head carved on the walls marks the warrior's height, "eight ells and more." In this case tradition must come to grief, for in Roland's day Christianity had not dawned so far northwards.

More likely is it that the noble house of Ros in England derives its name from this small village. According to the early Sagas, here at the "os" (mouth) of the streamlet Råa (Ro) a viking once had his nest-Vikingänaste, and here founded a little fort of earth and trä—the origin of the village Rous.*

Some authors assert the Swedish Counts of Ros to derive their name from this village. This is not probable. The family in old