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swore, that his royal head should never again know repose, until he had bitterly revenged upon the Christian world, the base and cruel assassination of his consort and his subjects, by bloodshed, war, and desolation of its dominions. During the next three years, he prepared the whole of the wealth which he possessed, to bear the heavy expences he was about to incur, and at the close of that period he had already an army of five hundred thousand men, all prepared to act against the states of Christendom.
Tradition, however, does not inform us of the result of these grand preparations, to avenge the cruel assassination of his Empress, and his tributary princes and great lords.[1]
- ↑ The historical account of the murder of the Tartar princess at Neumarkt, is to be found in the legend of the holy St. Hedwig. It was first printed in German at Breslau, in the year 1504, in folio. It is historically shewn that the whole was merely a popular story, current for a long period; from which likewise a popular song had been composed, extracted from the same collection, and which has been also attached to the present collection. The subject is treated in Wunderhorn, II. c. 258—60. Büs.
