Excerpt from The Lake of Lucerne Two Voices are there one is of the sea, One of the mountains. The legend of Arnold von Winkelried, like that of Tell, has been questioned of recent years it first appears, more than half a century after the supposed event, in an interpolated notice in a Zurich chronicle (1438 or later), and a popular song of the latter half of the same century. True or false it will bear retelling, and indicates correctly enough the national spirit, even though it err in narration Of historical fact. After ...
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Excerpt from The Lake of Lucerne Two Voices are there one is of the sea, One of the mountains. The legend of Arnold von Winkelried, like that of Tell, has been questioned of recent years it first appears, more than half a century after the supposed event, in an interpolated notice in a Zurich chronicle (1438 or later), and a popular song of the latter half of the same century. True or false it will bear retelling, and indicates correctly enough the national spirit, even though it err in narration Of historical fact. After all, most children know it by heart how Arnold von Winkelried, finding it impossible by any other means to break the serried Austrian ranks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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