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then in his sixty-eighth year, and when it was supposed he 

 could no longer do any harm, he was removed to the Castle of 

 Kallundborg, where freedom was granted him, and he was 

 allowed to amuse himself as best he might ; and here, in 

 1559, at the advanced age of seventy-eight, he closed his 

 wicked and chequered life. 



The fate of the Archbishop Trolle is soon narrated. After 

 Christian had been taken prisoner in Norway, whither the 

 prelate had accompanied him, he fled to Germany. Here, 

 detested by his countrymen, and despised by foreigners, 

 he served as a volunteer with the Lubeckers, at the battle of 

 Oxneberg fought in 1535, against the Swedes where he 

 received his death- wound. 



A word in conclusion as to the manners and customs of 

 the times in which Gustavus lived. 



Simplicity and' frugality in every-day life and pomp, such 

 as it was, on grand occasions were the order of the day. 

 Many of the present conveniences and comforts of life were 

 then unknown. Glass windows were very uncommon ; 

 linen, parchment, and fine lattice-work being substituted for 

 the Skjut-luckor, or apertures closed by slides. Open 

 fire-places were used instead of stoves, and this, indeed, con- 

 tinued to be the case for two hundred years afterwards. 

 Mats or hangings with the poorer classes of coarse mate- 

 rials, but with the rich, embroidered with silk and gold- 

 were suspended to the sides of the apartments, which were 

 commonly constructed of logs. With the opulent classes 

 thick benches of oak were fastened to the walls, and in front 

 of them were long tables of equally substantial materials. 



