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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    lowers of the strange knight had entered it through the empty bed of the river. Thus surrounded, Sir Dietrick was in despair, not because he feared death, but because ali hopes of once more embracing his daughter were now lost. In his rage he again attacked his adversaries with all his people ; drove the followers of Sir Rudolphus back to the entrance between the rocks, but a fresh supply of men came to their assistance. Sir Dietrick’s people were beat, and he himself severely wounded and taken prisoner. When the men brought him before Rudol- phus, he stared at him, and immediately con¬ tradicted his first order to have him instantly executed. Rudolphus was the knight with the red scarf, whose life Dietrick had saved from the revenge of the offended maiden. He ordered his man to bind the miller and conduct him to castle Felseck. The joyful shouts of the country people were unanimous at seeing the great criminal a prisoner. The mill was set on fire, and the watch tower demolished. When the abbot of St. Bruno heard this