The Life of the Moselle by Octavius Rooke

Author:Octavius Rooke [Rooke, Octavius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Biographical
ISBN: 9781501064432
Google: Ayy8oQEACAAJ
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2014-09-04T02:41:22+00:00

LEGEND OF VELDENZ.

Irmina wept for her knightly lover, who had departed to fight the Saracens. Her mother bade her dry her tears, for there was no lack of lovers for a pretty girl like her; but Irmina replied with sobs, that the ring which her knight had given her, and which she always wore, united her to him for ever, and seemed to whisper words of love and caress her hand.

Then the mother, fearing for her daughter’s health, advised her to throw off the ring, for her lover was surely dead, and it would be wiser to take a live husband than mope for a dead lover.

Persuaded at length, Irmina cast her ring into the well, and seemed to get the better of her melancholy; but one day the ring was drawn up in the well-bucket, and the maid brought it in to her young mistress: then her love likewise returned.

Her mother again persuaded her to cast away the fatal ring, and this time it was buried deep in the earth; but a bean that was buried there likewise, grew rapidly up, and carried the ring to the window of Irmina’s chamber.

Much frightened, Irmina yet rejoiced at recovering her ring, and her love for the absent knight grew stronger than ever. Her mother once more pressed her to destroy it, and this time proposed fire as a means of being quit of the ring for ever.

“Do not, dear mother,” said the maiden; “’twould be sin before God. In spirit I am wedded to my absent knight, and, alive or dead, none other husband will I have.”

Still the mother persisted, and wrested the ring from her daughter’s hand; but before she could cast it into the flames the knight stood alive in the room, and soon the ring was used for the purpose of turning the wandering knight and the lady Irmina into a happy bridegroom and bride.

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