Copy 1, Volume 2

Popular tales and romances of the Northern nations.

Date:: 1823

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Popular tales and romances of the Northern nations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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tation from me: his scarf is grey and red. Bring me his head, and you shall be rewarded to your utmost desire.—She turned from him, and walked away. Sir Dietrick looked after her full of hidden rage, “ A monk! or the devil in a woman’s clothes,” said he. “ A knight courts another lady, and for that reason she orders him to be murdered. Woman! woman ! did not Matilda belong to thy sex, I had throttled thee ! Seating himself by the road side, he soon saw a knight approach, wearing a gray and red scarf. Sir Dietrick walked up to the horse and cooly asked the rider; “Are you going to visit the lady in yon castle Knight. Yes ! what is that to you ? Diet. Nothing, but that she, who invited you, charged me to murder you. Don’t grasp your sword, Sir Knight, if I had meant to murder you, 1 should not have spoken to you. Be prudent and ride home. Knight. Who are you ? Diet. That is nothing to you! ride home, I say !