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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    of suicide, yet the hope of finding his Matilda, made him drop his raised arm. Every year he dispatched a man in search of her, but all his messengers returned without the wished information. He led the life of a madman, who, at times, is perfectly sensible, and then sees his fate in the darkest colours. In the beginning of the fifth year, he was ordered to murder Sir Rudolphus of Felseck, who escaped and vowed to be the death of the miller, and several of his brother knights joining with him, he surrounded the valley, at the head of a considerable force. Before Rudolphus joined his followers, he received in his castle a strange knight, with his wife and children, who had some cause of complaint against the abbot of St Bruno. He was well received in the castle of Rudolphus, and, as the abbot refused to give him satisfaction, the stranger fearing the time might hang heavy on his hands, accompanied his host on the ex¬ pedition against the miller. They had soon little hope left of conquering
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