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RENDSBURG.
Chap. I.
death of her husband the King, the crown descended
not to her children, she took the whole country in
great hatred, and in revenge destroyed the royal
archives, all the charters concerning the Wends given
by the Emperor Frederic Barbarossa, and the bulls of
Pope Innocent; she burnt them all, causing thereby
great confusion in the country; so says the historian.
It was on this Duke Adolf that, when fighting in the
Holy Land, the Emperor Frederic Barbarossa conferred
the arms “ on a field gules, three nettle-leaves argent,
each pierced by a nail of the cross,” which cognizance has
been borne by the duchy from that time to the present
day.
RENDSBURG.
For the life of me I cannot say why I went to
Rendsburg—historical associations I suppose, for I
remember to have read a long time since a book about
the Thirty Years’ War and the Merodeurs, from whom
we derive the word marauders, followers of the Count
de Mérode—how ill they behaved, carrying off the
Holstein peasant girls en croupe upon their horses. A
more tumbledown, grass-grown, dilapidated place I
never came across—all fortress, soldiers, and Holstein
canals—built on the river Eider, where I neither saw
ducks nor down.
A change here comes over the spirit of our church
epitaphia. The oval medallion portrait is replaced by a
representation of the Crucifixion, Ascension, or the Last
Judgment, painted or carved, sometimes in wood,
sometimes in stone. Below stand or kneel the father
followed by his male progeny; the mother with her
daughters on the side opposed—all gazing with devout
mien and countenance.
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