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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    abbot, which closed against him the gates of eternal punishment, though his conduct might be that of a fiend, and opened those which lead .to the joys of paradise ; he was then conducted to the dark valley. The entrance to it was through a narrow passage betwixt two rocks, and on his arrival there the knight stared with amazement, pinched himself to ascertain whe¬ ther he was awake, for he seemed to be in his native valley, at the foot of the castles of Terror and of Eagle*eyric. Imagination created in the mist which surrounded the tops of the rocks, the tower of Eagle-eyric, converted the little stream that came roaring over the rocks into the mighty water of the Elbe, widened the valley, decorated the barren rocks on the right with vines and flowers, and left nothing undone which could complete the delusion. His guide calling out: “ This is your mill,” brought him back from his wanderings. “ This then is the dark valleysaid Sir Die- trick to himself, ‘‘ here then will I live and die ; here where every thing reminds me of my losses, and sharpens my desire for revenge !**