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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    repeated tlie more they are desired. When Sir Dietrick received the second order to slaughter a victim to the revenge of priests, his conscience did not so constantly banish sleep, but his sleep did not refresh him, and it was often broken and disturbed. At the end of the first year, when his arrows had pierced many a human heart, he heard without horror the death warrant sent by the abbot, continued to eat, if he happened to be at his meals, and quietly slept during the night. Sometimes, however, he could not banish the horrible reflection. How ! if the tool only were to be punished, not the hand which guides it ? When such a thought brought before bis mind’s eyes, the bloody forms of those he had murdered, when a thousand voices in his conscience called him murderer, he hurried to bis men and made them repeat to him as he had taught them, who it was that killed his wife, his son,—that dishonoured his Matilda. This gave him new strength, and the resistance of some of his victims, created in him a greater desire for blood; he made sure