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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    He took up his abode in the mill. His ser¬ vants soon began to love him; one showed him how to secure himself against surprise, by lay¬ ing under water the only access through the rocks. Another told him of the old miller, whom he said, had heen a rich and powerful knight, and champion of the monastery of St. Bruno, honoured and beloved by his vassals, as well as by the abbot, and by the reigning prince. He had principallyresided at court, had been frequently the mediator between the quarrelsome abbot and the noble prince, and also had been present at the assassination of the latter by a band of robbers. Soon afterwards his intimacy with the abbot had ceased, and he was imprisoned in one of the vaults of the monastery. He there made a will in favour of one of his kindred, which he deposited on the altar, in the church of St. Bruno. The will was opened by the abbot, who forced him to swear that he would give his income to the monastery during his life time, and that he would not kill himself, nor speak one word relative to the affair. After this he had hired the mill. The man told Sir Dietrick VoL. II. u