he Prince; and it came to pass on a
time that rising from his bed in the morning, and crossing the court
dressed only in his gown and slippers, he met this lion loose and
raging against him. He thereon threatened the beast with his raised
fist, and rated it manfully, till laying aside its fierceness, it
lay down at the knight's feet, and fawned on him, wagging its tail.'
So Dietrich.

Pp. 99-100, 103-108. Cf. Lib. IV. section 7.

'Now shortly after the news of Lewis's death, certain vassals of her
late husband (with Henry, her brother-in-law) cast her out of the
castle and of all her possessions. . . . She took refuge that night
in a certain tavern, . . . and went at midnight to the matins of the
"Minor Brothers." . . . And when no one dare give her lodging, took
refuge in the church. . . . And when her little ones were brought
to her from the castle, amid most bitter frost, she knew not where
to lay their heads. . . . She entered a priest's house, and fed her
family miserably enough, by pawning what she had. There was in that
town an enemy of hers, having a roomy house. . . . Whither she
entered at his bidding, and was forced to dwell with her whole
family in a very narrow space, . . . her host and hostess heaped her
with annoyances and spite. She therefore bade them farewell,
saying, "I would willingly thank mankind if they would give me any
reason for so doing." So she returned to her former filthy cell.'

P. 100. 'White whales' bone' (i.e. the tooth of the narwhal); a
common simile in the older poets.

P. 104. 'The nuns of Kitzingen.' Cf. Lib. V. section 1. 'After
this, the noble Lady the Abbess of Kitzingen, Elizabeth's aunt
according to the flesh, brought her away honourably to Eckembert,
Lord Bishop of Bamberg.'

P. 106. 'Aged crone.' Cf. Lib. IV. section 8, where this whole
story is related word for word.

P. 109. 'I'd mar this face.' Cf. Lib. V. section 1. 'If I could
not,' said she, 'escape by any other means, I would with my own
hands cut off my nose, that so every man might loathe me when so
foully disfigured.'

P. 110. 'Botenstain.' Cf. ibid. 'The bishop commanded that she
should be taken to Botenstain with her maids, until he should give
her away in marriage.'

P. 111. 'Bear children.' Ibid. 'The venerable man, knowing that
the Apostle says, "I will that the younger widows marry and bear
children," thought of giving her in marriage to some one--an
intention which she perc