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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    the sun?” At other times he would call himself a weak wretch, who bereft of wife, children, fortune and honour, could yet consent to live, and forget, for a moment, all that he had lost. Again, he cursed himself for thus seeking concealment like the greatest criminal when he was the person injured; for wailing and groaning like a woman while he possessed a poniard to avenge his wrongs, and gold to buy assistants. At such moments, he formed the resolution to go back into the world, and furi¬ ously to attack and destroy his enemies. He accordingly left his hiding place during- the day, but whenever he saw a human being-, he fled to the darkest recesses of the wood, laid down at the foot of a tree, and bemoaned the loss of his Matilda. Th is he often repeated. One morning he found himself in the midst of a large forest, where numerous heaps of wood burning to make charcoal, reminded him of man, he even heard somebody sing at a little distance, and he quickly climbed up an oak tree, to hide himself among its foliage ; but, before he could