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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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ce attheir hands. Touched by this reply, the emperor sprang to his feetand exclaimed: Eberhart, the prize is yours, for there iscertainly nothing more precious to a ruler than the genuinelove and devotion of his subjects.1 RODENSTEIN.1bost. THE ruined castle of Rodenstein, which is one of thereputed haunts of the traditional Wild Huntsman, is sur-rounded by wild forests, and stands in the midst of grimmountains. This castle was once inhabited by a knight ofRodenstein who declared himself the champion of the Ger-man fatherland, swore to fight for it against any foe, andvowed to love it forever. To serve his country more entirely, this knight refusedto marry, so no one mourned him greatly when he vanishedfrom the castle one day and did not reappear. The peas-antry, however, aver that he did not die in war, as was com-monly reported, but withdrew into the vaults of his castle,whence he issues when any special danger threatens hisbeloved fatherland. In corroboration of this belief, they O
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OGGERSHEIM. 275 declare that whenever :i war has broken out, the tramp ofmailed steeds is heard in the ruins, and that at nightfall ashadowy army, led by the lord of Rodenstein, sweeps acrossthe sky in the direction where the danger is greatest. Justbefore peace is proclaimed the shadowy host returns toRodenstein, and re-enters the castle with a glad song oftriumph, to linger there unheard and unseen until its ser-vices are again required to free the beloved fatherland froma hated yoke. Some German writers further declare that FrederickBarbarossa is slumbering in the castle vaults. He awakensfrom time to time to hold grand underground receptions,at which the gnomes and dead knights appear. Here hehas amassed great treasures for future use, for like Arthurthe people expect he will return to rule over his kingdomonce more and raise it to higher glory.* OGGERSHEIM.2>e0erteD Gftg. THE little town of Oggersheim, besieged by the Spaniardsduring the Thirty Years War, held out bravely as l

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