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Title: Legends of the Rhine
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline), d. 1929
Subjects: Folklore -- Rhine River Valley Legends -- Rhine River Valley Mythology, Germanic Rhine River Valley -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t instincts of piety, and as soon as she wasold enough, learned to read all the theological books andtreatises, and became as well versed in theology as themost learned priest. She was also very beautiful, butearly in life she registered a solemn vow to serve theLord only, and to forego marriage and all worldly pompsfor his sake. When she was but fifteen years of age Ursulalost her mother, and shortly after that her father, whom theVenetians call the Moor, received an embassy from Agrip-pinus, King of England, who wished to secure Ursulashand for Conon, his only son. Vionetus, knowing that arefusal might be considered so insulting as to entail abloody war, did not dare to say no; yet he could not bear toforce his child into a detested alliance. While he was pon-dering what answer he could give, Ursula, discovering thecause of his perplexity, volunteered to give her own reply.After having duly prayed she summoned the ambassadors,and told them she would consent to the proposed alliance,
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LANDING OF ST. URSULA AT COLOGNE. Mcmlin-. COLOGNE. 59 provided the heathen prince would embrace Christianity,would give her ten handmaidens of spotless purity andnoble birth, each accompanied by a thousand virgins, wouldsupply an equal number of virgin attendants for her owntrain, would grant her three years of freedom that shemight make a pious pilgrimage to Rome, visiting all theholy shrines by the way, and would claim her as wife onlywhen the journey was ended. The ambassadors, having received this answer, hastenedhome, where they described the Princess Ursulas beautyand attainments in such glowing terms, that the heathenprince immediately received baptism, and collecting theeleven thousand virgins from all parts of his kingdom, sentthem over to Brittany to attend their future queen. Ursula received the maidens gladly, and bidding themassemble in a flowery meadow, she expounded the Gospel soconvincingly that she soon converted them all. The Eng-lish prince, hastening to Brittany a

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