Ingo - Softcover

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. 1906 Excerpt: ...to the maids. 7. 13. Casting a rapid glance on Ingo, Irmgard asked the watchman to hand the stranger a jug of milk, and said that, whoever he were, he would be granted hospitality for three days. 14. Riding down the valley the horsemen caught here and there a glimpse of the chieftain's dwelling, which was situated on a knoll apart from the village. II V 8. 1. In front of the mansion-house was a meadow on which a number of boys were practising jumping over a scaffolding which they had put up there. 2. One of the boys whom the sentinel called ran with fleet PAGE foot to the mansion to announce the stranger's arrival to the chieftain. v 9. 3. Since the war with the Romans broke out on the Rhine, there have been many victims of outrage roaming about the country and committing violence in the bitterness of their hate. 4. Though I dread Roman manners and Roman perfidy, which are infesting our valleys like a plague, we must give what is due to a starving man. 10. ' 5. When Ingo appeared before Sir Answald he informed him that he was friendless, homeless and defenceless, and begged for the protection of his roof. 6. The herald informed him that the chieftain would grant his prayer, and offered him three days' food and rest as well as security for life and limb. 11. 7. In the battle of Strassburg in A.D. 357 the kings of the Alemanni, Hnodomar and Athanarich, were taken prisoners, and the Romans gained a decisive victory. 8. While Prince Answald listened to Ingo's description of the great battle, he with great difficulty concealed his emotion, as he looked down gloomily in front of him. 12. 9. Ingo told Answald that he was a Vandal from the river Oder, and had come to the Rhine without one of his countrymen; also that a cruel fate had driven him from his home. 10. I...