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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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goaded to madness by theirimportunity, confessed her crime ere she sank to the floorin violent convulsions from which she died. ZULPICH.Clovis Dow. ZULPICH, as the ancient Tolbiac is now called, is the siteof Clovis famous battle against the invading Teutons. Itwas here he uttered the solemn vow that if the God of hisChristian wife Clothilde would only grant him the victory,he would be baptized, and would serve him only all the restof his life. The victory remained with the Francs, and Clovis, mind-ful of his vow, was duly baptized in the cathedral at Rheims,where the archbishop, St. Remi, solemnly bade him bendthe knee before the Lord of heaven, and henceforth burnwhat he had worshiped, and worship what he had beenwont to destroy. LUFTELBERG.Gbe Cbaritable Girl. A LEGEND relates that this eminence received its namefrom Liifthilde, a charming and charitable girl who did muchgood to the poor. She employed all her spare momentsin spinning fine thread which she sold at a high price, and
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VOW OF CLOY IS. Blanc. VILLICH. 99 devoted all the money which she thus earned to buy reme-dies for the sick, who considered her far more skillful thanany leech. Charlemagne, out hunting one day, had the misfortune towound himself sorely, and would have bled to death, had notthis deft-handed maiden been summoned. By her timelyassistance she saved his life. Full of gratitude for herservices, the emperor bade her mount his horse, promisingto give her as much land as she could ride around ere sun-down. Liifthilde, nothing daunted, urged the emperorssteed to its utmost speed, and rode all around the forestnow known as the Liiftelberg. To prove that she had really been all around it, shedropped her spindle, and kept twisting her thread, which wasfound to describe the exact boundary of the land which theemperor gave her in fee. This she appropriated for theuse of the poor, founding an order of nuns, who employedall their time in caring for the sick. VILLICH.JBoj on tbc Ear, IN the tenth cen

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