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Sank Arbogast
The two equal sons
The lombardische play man
Wittekinds baptism
Building Frankfurt
Eginhart and Emma1)
King of Ludwig rib folds
Duke Heinrich and the goldne halskette

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Sank Arbogast

St. Arbogast, bishop to Strasbourg, came into large Huld and secretness with Dagobert, king to France; and nothing gehrte the king rather, than often speaking with it and to have its wise advice. Once happened that king hunters and victory Ebert, its son, in which shrubs and forests hunted to Ill, where afterwards Ebersheim, which arose cathedrals, found and a large Eber; that ran they after with the dogs, one, the andre ago. And there kam's that victory Ebert the boy rode completely alone and discovered unwarned the Eber. The Ross shrank from at the game that the boy dropped and slope-remained in the bar hoar frost; there the horse stepped it that it for dead dalag. When it now the king servants ertreten found, they lifted it on with large suffer, led it home, and it died on the other day there Dagoberten was guessed/advised to send to pc. Arbogast; that came immediately, and after much speech and complaint he kniete before the corpse and called our women: since it would have born the life of all world that it would acquire the boy its life again. There ward the boy again living and grant on in the dead dresses, took off one to it and taet it to royal dresses. There fell king and queen and everything its Gefolg the holy one to feet and thanked its grace; neither he wanted to take gold nor silver, but after its rate the king at our Mrs. Muenster gave to Strasbourg call oh with fields, forests, Wonn and pasture.
      When now after many years Arbogast came to the age and became ill, he spoke to his subjects: Gleichwie our Mr. Jesus buried would be by heart Jerusalem at the place, since one spoiled bad people, therefore wants it the welfare and to follow; and when it entices, one should it by heart Strasbourg buried with the Galgen to the place, where one directs via bad people. That they had to do gel above to him. Thus ward it after its death buried on pc. Michelsbuehel, that was the Henkebuehel, and grants at that time the Galgen there. There one built a chapel in pc. Michaels honours, in this over its grave lay he much year in person.

The two equal sons

King Pippin of France vermaehlte itself with a beautiful virgin, who brought him a son to the world, but died over its birth. Soon thereafter it took a new wife, bore to it a son likewise. It sent and let these two sons into far countries it foreign educate; they became however similar in all pieces that one could hardly differentiate between them. After some time the queen lay close to her husband that it would let her see nevertheless their child; it however instructed to bring the two sons at yard. There the youngest was perfectly alike to the oldest, regardless of a yearly difference, in shape and size, and one like the other one resembled the father that the nut/mother could not know, which their child under it would be. There to cry stroke it on, because it did not want to reveal Pippin; finally he spoke: "let off cry, these is your son", and pointed it from the first wife. The queen looked forward and maintained and procured this child to all way; while it did not respect the other one, which was their right son, in the slightest.

The lombardische play man

When Karl intended to cover the king Desiderius with war a lombardischer play man came to Franconias and sang a song the following of contents: "received which wages, the Karl into the country Italy leads? On ways, where no Spiess is to be back-pushed against it to be waived, no sign and hurt none of its people?" When that came Karl to ears, he appointed the man as itself and promised him to grant everything that he would demand, after attained victory.
      The army was convened, and the play man had to precede. It yielded however from all roads and ways and led the king over the edge of a mountain, where it still means up to today's day: the Franconia way. Like it of this mountain they down-rose fast and fell the Langobarden unexpectedly into the back into the gavenische level, collected themselves; Desiderius fled after Pavia, and Franconias rushed over the whole country. The play man however came before the king Karl and admonished him its promise. The king spoke: "demands, what you want!" Whereupon it answered: "I want to rise to one of these mountains and blow strongly into my horn; as far as the sound may be heard, the country lends to me to the wages of my earnings/services with men and women, those in it are." Karl spoke: "it happens, as you said." The play man leaned, rose immediately to the mountain and blew; it climbed down then, went through villages and fields and whom he found, he asked: "haste you horn to blow hear?" And who answered now: ", I hab's belongs", to that shifted he a muzzle clip with the words: "you are my own."
      Thus Karl lent the country to it, as far as one had been able to hear its blowing; the play man, as long as it lived, and its descendants possessed it calmly, and with the exception of which the inhabitants of this country were called today's day the Zusammengeblasenen (transcornati).

Wittekinds baptism

King Karl had a habit: all large celebrations followed it many beggars, to who it left to give any a silver Pfennig. Like that it was in satisfying week the fact that Wittekind of Engern put on beggar dresses and went into Karl's camps under the beggars to sit and wanted to explore Franconias. On Easter however the king let read in its tent fair; there a goettliches miracle happened that Wittekind, when the priest raised the Heiligtum saw therein an alive child; the deuchte it a so beautiful child, as it its living day ever seen, and no eye saw it except it. After the fair the silver Pfennigs the poor people recognized expenditure-divided there one Wittekind under the begging skirt, seized and led it before the king. There he, what he would have seen, said and ward informs all things that his heart was moved, and received the baptism and sent after the other princes in his camp that they stopped the war and be baptized could. Karl however made it dukes and changed the black horse in his sign into a white.

Building Frankfurt

As a king Karl, struck from whom Saxonia, fled and came to the Main, Franconias did not know to find to ford, where they could go over the river and save themselves from their enemies. There a deer cow is to have appeared sudden, precede them and become a guide. Therefore Franconias arrived over the Main, and since then the place is called Franconia ford.

Eginhart and Emma1)

Eginhart, Karl of the large Erzkapellan and writer, that in the royal Hofe commendablly diente2), was kept worth by all people, but loved by Imma, the emperor Tochter, violently. It was engaged the Greek king as a bride, and the, grew the more the secret love between Eginhart and Imma applied more time. The fear held back both that the king would like to discover and about it enrage their passion. Finally however the young man might have saved not longer, seized themselves, because he did not want to reveal anything to the ears of the virgin by a strange messenger, a heart and went at quiet night to its dwelling. It knocked quiet at the chamber Tuere, as if it would be on the king go-eats sent, and was let in. There they confessed their love and enjoyed themselves to the desired embrace. When in the meantime the young man wanted to decrease/go back with daybreak, from where he had come, he that a thick snow was fallen over night, saw and shrank from themselves to step over the threshold because him the traces were soon betrayed by man feet. In this fear and emergency the loving, what would be to be done, considered and the virgin devised itself a bold act: it wanted to take the Eginhart on itself and to set it off, eh it to light, until near to its harsh suppl. carried, daselbst and return then carefully in their own footprints again. This night did not have straight through God sending the emperors sleep, erhub during the early dawn and looked itself from far into the yard of its castle. There he saw his daughter under its heavy load vorueberwanken and after put down burden fast jumps back. The emperor watched exactly and felt admiration and pain at same time; but it held silence. Eginhart however, which was probably conscious, this act into the length not to remain hidden, deliberated with itself, depressed before its gentleman, kniete and asked for parting, because it its faithful service is not repaid nevertheless. The king was silent for a long time and verhehlte its mind; finally he promised the young man to say imminent answer. Meanwhile it set a court, appointed its first and most familiar advice and revealed to them that the royal reputation had been hurt by the dear trade of its daughter Imma with its writer. And during all surprised at the message of the new and large passing, he continued to say to them, like everything course-carried and he it with his own eyes would have regarded and he jetzo their advice and its judgement heische. Most however, wise and therefore mildly of convicition, were the opinion that the king was to decide in this thing. Karl, after he had examined all sides and the finger of planning in this occurence probably recognized, decided, to let grace for right be issued and the loving marry with one another. All praised with joys of the king sanftmut, which demanded the writer before itself and addressed thus: "already for a long time I would have better repaid your services, where you would have in former times discovered me your missvergnuegen; jetzo I want you to the wages my daughter Imma, you hochgeguertet willingly carried, to the conjugal woman give." Immediately it instructed to send to the daughter who was angetraut with erroetendem face in the yard present their loving. Also it gave her rich dowry at properties, gold and silver; and after the emperor Absterben Ludwig the pious one gave them Main gau by a special document in the Michlinstadt and mill home, which jetzo blessed city is called. In the church to blessed city both loving lie after their death buried. The verbal legend receives there its memory, and even the forest lying near, according to it, Imma is, as it it once "O you forest!" addressed, which names Odenwald lent.
      Also blessed city is to have a legend after therefore the names: Karl offended to Emma and, on the hunt erred, again to this places found; indeed as it it in a Fischer hut set forward, recognized it the daughter to it and called his favourite court:
"blessed is mentioned the city, where I regained Emma!"
1. Vincent. bellov. shifts the legend among emperors Heinrich III., whose sister renders the same service to a Klerikus.
2. After some to Aachen, after others to Ingelheim.

King of Ludwig rib folds

By king of Ludwig in Germany hardness and strength becomes tell as follows: It happened on an army course that a summerhouse or a chamber under it was received, it down-fallen and a rib failed. However it hid the damage from everyone, achieved its journey, and it is called, those, which dieselbige time accompanied it, heard to rattle its rib in the course. As everything was aligned, it pulled towards oh and was appropriate for two month in bed down, could quite be connected only there.

Duke Heinrich and the goldne halskette

Heinrich, Otto son, followed into its paternal inheritance as well as into most goods, which had carried also petrols of the realm; but not into all, because king Konrad was afraid, Heinrich would like to become over powerful. This hurt also Heinrichen, and the enmity, like weeds under wheat, grew between both. The Saxonia murrten; but the king placed itself friendly in words against Heinrich and sought him by cunning to beru-hit a corner. The betrayal Anstifter became however bishop Hatto of Mainz, who had brought also counts Adalbert, Heinrichs cousin, trueglich around the life. This Hatto went to a schmied and ordered a golden halskette, in which Heinrich should be erwuergt. A daily came now one of the king people into the workshop to besehen the work and as he her regarded, sighed he. The goldschmied asked: "why sigh you in such a way?" - "oh", that one answered, "because it soon to become red is from the blood of the best man, duke Heinrich." The schmied however was silent quietly as around a little thing. As soon as it had completed after the work with large art, it removed secretly and approached themselves Heinrich, which already unterwegens was, to the duke. It met it with that places Cassala1) and asked, where it would intend. Heinrich answered: "in a guest meal and large honours, to which I was loaded." There it the schmied discovered the whole condition of the thing; Heinrich called the envoy, who had invited, was called him him alone pulls and thank and called off the gentlemen. For Hatto it is to have given the following answer to it: "and legend Hatto goes that Heinrich does not carry a harder neck than Adalbert; and it wants to remain to house, than it with its many Gefolg rather troubles." Heinrich of bishop Besitzungen in Saxonia and Thuringia covered on that and befeindete the king of friends. Hatto died soon after from annoyance, some says that he three days later killed by the lightning flash sei2). The luck left the king and turned everywhere to duke Heinrich (after times Heinrich of the Vogler called).

1. Kassel in Hessen.
2. Other one that its soul was led by Teufeln into the Aetna.

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