• The holy forest of the Semnonen
• The navigation of the Usipier
• The Trullen
• Totila tries the holy one
• The sieved sleeping men in the cave
• Alboin wins Ticinum1)
• Autharis column
• Agilulf and Theudelind


Supporting "well medleys" are suggested throughout:

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Machine-translated.

The holy forest of the Semnonen

Under the Sweben the Semnonen was the oldest and noblest people. At certain times they kept holy in a forest, by the service of the ancestors and by old shower, meetings, to which all trunks risen from the same blood sent envoys, and brought a public people victim. Before the Haine they carry such reverence that nobody in-steps, which could not before be bound in gang, for the acknowledgment of its weakness and the goettlichen omnipotence. If it falls from approximate to the earth, then is not permitted to it, aufzustehn or to be waived, but it is rebored on the ground. This use points there how risen from the Heiligtum the people is there present and the allwaltende God, which must be everything else unterwuerfig and obedient.

The navigation of the Usipier

A crowd Usipier, recruited by the Romans in Germany and after Britannien brought, committed a large and admire-worthy piece of daring. After they had killed, mounted the captain and the soldiers of the Romans, who had been mixed under their heaps, in order to straighten them to the service, them three light ships, whose tax people forced them by force in addition. Two the same, which became suspicious them, they killed also and stung with a ruderer into the high sea, a true miracle! Soon, soon there it here floated, they had with the britannischen kuestenbewohnern, who defended their property, in order to fight to food; , some times were subject they mostly triumphed. The hunger emergency rose last so far on its ships that they pulled only their weak ones and patients verzehrten, soon however lots therefore, who had to serve the other one for the meal. When they had finally lost Britannien umfahren and from Unkunde of shipping their ships, they were regarded for robbers and caught by the Sweben, then by the Friesen. Some under it came negotiated and sells after times again into the hands of the Romans to Italy, where they told their strange occurence.

The Trullen

The Vandalen called the Goten Truller, from this cause: Once the Goten hunger emergency suffered and had to buy grain of the Vandalen. They received however for a piece of gold only a Trulle fully grain. A Trulle does not even hold the third part of a Sechters.

Totila tries the holy one

When Totila, had heard king of the Goten that on the holy Benediktus a spirit of the pointing saying rested, it applied and let its attendance in the monastery announce. He wanted to try however whether the man of God would have the gift of the pointing saying really. Its weapon carrier, named Riggo, he gave its shoes to one and let him royal dresses do; so it should approach in shape of the king the holy one. Three other gentlemen from the attendants, Wulderich, Ruderich and Blindin1), had to accompany it, carry its weapons and not employ themselves differently, than whether he would be the true king. Riggo went now in its magnificent garb under approaching many people into the Muenster, where the man of God sat in the distance. As soon as Benediktus saw the coming in the proximity that he could be heard by him, he proclaimed: "put down, my son, put down; which you carry, is not yours!" Riggo sank to soil before frights that he had been immediately discovered, and everything its company bent itself with him. Whereupon they erhuben themselves again, did not dare however not to go to the holy one more near but turned trembling to their king back with the message, how would have happened them. Now Totila opened itself and bent themselves before the Benediktus sitting in the width down. This arose in addition, to main header the king, blamed it over its cruel army course and announced to it in few words the future: "you do much bad and much bad did; now leave off from injustice! You will draw in nine years into Rome, over the sea go, prevail and in tenth die." Totila frightened violently, gave time off themselves from the holy one and was since then not so cruelly more.

1. With Marcellinus, p. 72, is called the three dukes of the Totila Ruderit, Viliarid, Bleda.

The sieved sleeping men in the cave

In completely Germany one knows the following marvelous occurence: Because of the outermost seacoast rock a cave, in that, is not one can any more say since which time, for a long time seven men not sleep under a rising up; their bodies remain unverwest, their dresses wear not, and the people admires them highly. After the tracht they seem to be Romans. The longing provoked one that it the garb to take off wanted; immediately it the arms erdorrten, and the people frightened in such a way that nobody dared to step more near. Planning keeps it for a holy purpose, and that once they are to perhaps rise and verkuendigen the heidnischen peoples the holy teachings.

Alboin wins Ticinum (Pavia)

Three years and some months Alboin Ticinum had besieged, arose eh it. When now the king in-rode by the Johannespforte at the eastern side of the city, its horse fell down in the middle under the gate and could be brought by no capers to rise again. There a Langobarde said: "think of, to o king, your geluebdes and break it, then you will be received into the city, because it lives also Christian people in it." Alboin had praised to let the whole people, because it did not want to result, jump over the blade. It broke now the hard geluebde on that and promised the citizen grace; immediately main header its horse up, and it kept itself the introduction calm.

Autharis column

Of Authari, which king of the Lombarden, told: It is over Spoleto penetrated to towards Benevent, the country took and even Reggio afflicted, which is the last city of the firm country at the strait, Sicily opposite. Daselbst should be set in the sea waves a column; up to that Authari on its Ross blew up and touched it with the point of its lance, by proclaiming: "here the Langobarden border is to stand!" This column is called up to the today's day Autharis column.

Agilulf and Theudelind

After Autharis (Vetaris) death left the Langobarden Theudelind, which would exist royal widow, who probably-pleased them all, in their and released it, which it wanted, to select from the people that became them all for their king recognizing. It however appointed Agilulf, duke of Taurin, one martial man, and traveled it until Laumell against. The first greeting right after let she wine give, drank and handed the remaining to the Agilulf. When he kissed the hand of the queen now with the receipt of the cup ehrerbietig, she spoke smiling and erroetend: "me the hand does not need to kiss, which is to give me its kiss on the mouth." It left it on that to the kiss and did to it the calm resolution kund; under general glad curls soon the wedding was committed and accepted Agilulf from all met people to the king.
      Under the wise and strong rule of this king the realm of the Langobarden stood in luck and peace; Theudelind, its wife, was beautiful and virtue SAM. It went however that a young man from the royal Gesinde seized insurmountable loving to the queen and nevertheless, its niedern birth half, no hope to feed was allowed to ever arrive at the satisfaction of its desires. He decided finally to dare the extreme and if he had to die. Because it had now abgemerkt that the king did not go each night to the queen, whenever he however did it, wrapped into a long coat, in whom hand a candle, in which others a Staeblein carrying, before which sleep in accordance with oh Theudelindens stepped and struck with the Staeblein in or twice before the Tuere, on which was immediately opened for him and removed from it the candle - in such a way it provided such a coat, as it equaled that also from shape exactly kings.
      An at night wrapped it into the coat, took myself candle and Staeblein to the hand and did two impacts to the Tuere of the bedroom; immediately ward to it from the Kaemmerin opened, the candle removed, and the servants really arrived into the bed of the queen, who regarded it as no different one than their husband. Meanwhile he was afraid, on such luck fast mischief might have followed, made themselves therefore soon from the arms of the queen and arrived on the same way, as it had come, unidentified into its sleep tube back.
      It had hardly departed, when the king planned, to visit this night its wife who received it gladly, but surprised asked, why it against its habit, since it evenly only leave it, already again to it turn. Agilulf stutzte, imagined themselves however presently/immediately that she could have been deceived by the similarity of the shape and clothes; and there it their innocence saw clear, gave it as a reasonable man not only, but answered themselves: "it think capable of their to me doesn't that, after I may come once with you been, I not again to you?" On which it shifted: ", my gentleman and husband, only I ask you that on your health may see it." - "if their me in such a way guess/advise", spoke Agilulf, "in such a way wants I you to follow and this time not further endeavor." After these words the king took his coat again again and left to fully internal anger and Unwillen, who had caused this insult to him, the Gemach of the queen. Because it closed however correctly the fact that one would have to be from the Hofgesinde of the authors and still not out of the house had been able to go, then he decided to after-feel on the place and went with a light into a long hall over the Marstall, where the whole servant shank in different beds slept. And by it, that, considered far, that achieved, still the heart would have to strike it much more strongly than the others, then the king of the row stepped after to the sleeping, put to them the hand on the chest and felt, how their hearts struck. All however lay in deep peace, and the impacts of its blood were quiet and slow, until it approached last the camp its, which had really committed it. This had not passed away yet, but, as he the king into the hall step gesehn, into large fear turned out and believed certainly that he should be killed; but it troestete it that he saw the king without weapons, closed therefore, like those more near stepped, firmly the eyes and placed themselves sleeping. When now the king put the hand to it also on the chest and violently it pounds its heart felt it probably noticed that this was the author, and took, because it wanted to shift up to the day, what he with him to do will had, shears cut and from the side over the ear a curl of the long hair to it off. Whereupon the king left, that one however, which was cunning and ingenious, rose immediately, cut everyone its sleep-associated on the same side a curl with the shears and put after completely calmly down into his bed and slept. In the morning in all early one, before the gates of the castle were opened, instructed the king to all Gesinde to appear in its present and began it to regard, in order those, which it had sheared to out-find under it. There it however surprises sahe that among them on the same place the curl was missing to most, said it to itself: "that, which I look for, is certain from low origin, but from intelligent sense." And immediately recognizing that he will not to no more find him without large public annoyance, he spoke everything loud to them: "who did it, is silent and do it never more!" With these words of the king all servants saw themselves each other on surprised and did not know not, what they meant; except the one, which had committed the piece, which enough was intelligent to let become loud its live-long nothing of it and be sufficient itself at the luck, which had happened to it.