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kablo persons whose remains are deposited in this .Ca­ thedral, are Ilarald DIaatand, .who at the end of the tentli Century built the first church in Rocskilde. Svend Estridscn, Queen Margarcthc the Sbmiramis of the North, and most of the Kings of the Oldenburg line are here deposited. ✓ In one chapel dedicated to the three Wise men of the East, are two monuments erected to the memory of Christian the third, and Frederick the second; at the back of the altar arc four monuments to the memory of Christian the fifth, Frederick the fourth, and their Royal consorts; they arc formed of Italian marble, and supposed to have been made in the Netherlands; nothing can surpass them in point of grandeur. Christian the seventh’s chapel is magnificent; in it, is a superb monument to the memory of King Frede­ rick the fifth, who was grandfather to the present sove­ reign of Denmark. In the Royal vault is a coffin thought to contain the remains of His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark; who was allied to Her Majesty Queen Anne of England. ' . / In the northern entrance to the chancel, under a simple stone, arc intcred the perishable remains of Saxo Grammaticus, who died in 1190, and near which on the wall is a Intin inscription to his memory.