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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    hands. He remained a long- time in this state. At length he remembered the words of the messenger; searched the pockets of the old man, and found a parchment written on and folded; this he took, separated the head from the dead body, and dug a hole with his poniard, in which he interred the latter. Du¬ ring this dreadful occupation, his senses re¬ peatedly deserted him, yet, at last, he accom¬ plished it, took the head and the parchment and returned to the mill. There he packed them up, and gave them to one of his servants, with the order to go and seek out the castle of Horne in Swabia, and deliver the parcel to Sir Walram the owner. After this he returned to the place where he had buried the body, under the idea, that, if he had done wrong, the ghost of the murdered man would come and strangle him at midnight; but the time passed away, the day dawned and not a hair on his head was injured. There is nothing in which a man reaches perfection so soon, as in the practice of sin; like intoxicating draughts, the oftener they are