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arms, the lion-leopard.[1] Their famous triple bedstead is still preserved as a relic in the old Castle; it stands in the room called the Junkernkammer, or Knight’s Chamber; and a splinter of it, worn by way of busk in a lady’s bodice, is said to have the virtue of dispelling every movement of jealousy from her heart.

  1. A plate of this tombstone may be seen in Falkenstein’s Analecta Nordgaviensia.—M.