This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...of arms with him. His valor and his strength were too well known to them; they had seen him too often cutting down entire troops of warriors, without even heing wounded himself. The king could therefore not prevail on any one to go in pursuit of the fugitive. And the fugitive continued to pursue his journey hy night, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...of arms with him. His valor and his strength were too well known to them; they had seen him too often cutting down entire troops of warriors, without even heing wounded himself. The king could therefore not prevail on any one to go in pursuit of the fugitive. And the fugitive continued to pursue his journey hy night, and to pass his days in the woods where he occupied himself hy catching hirds with every kind of snares. But whenever he arrived at the banks of some river, he took out his tackle and began to fish, thus providing, sometimes in one way and sometimes in another, food for himself and for his lady-love, with whom he never took the slightest liberty. Forty days had-thus elapsed, since the young hero had left Attila's residence, and on the evening of the fortieth day he arrived at the banks of a great river called the Rhine, which flows by a certain city, the capital of a kingdom, called Worms. There Walter gave in payment of his passage some fish which he had caught Defore in another place, and after having been instantly ferried across the stream, he again pursued his homeward journey with increased rapidity. On the morning of the following day, the boatman, who had conveyed him across the stream, rose at a very early hour, in order to go to Worms, and there carried the fish, which he had received as payment, to the king's cook. The fish were cooked, and served up on Gunther's table, who on examining them said to his cuisimer: "I never saw such fish before in the country of the Franks; they must be foreign fish. Pray tell me where they come from."f The cook replied that it was the boatman who had given them to him. The king then immediately sends for the latter, who on his arrival recounts the manner in which he had obtained them in the ...
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