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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER X
18/42

The church itself is simple: behind the grand altar a handsome chapel is erected, the ceiling of which is painted azure blue, embossed with golden stars.
In this chapel Gustavus I.is interred between his two wives.

The monument which covers the grave is large, and made of marble, but clumsy and void of taste.

It represents a sarcophagus, on which three bodies, the size of life, are laid; a marble canopy is raised over them.

The walls of the chapel are covered with pretty frescoes, representing the most remarkable scenes in the life of this monarch.

The most interesting among them are, one in which he enters a peasant's hut in peasant's attire, at the same moment that his pursuers are eagerly inquiring after him in front of the hut; the other, when he stands on a barrel, also dressed as a peasant, and harangues his people.


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