Part 1 (1/2)
ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands
by Hezekiah butterworth
PREFACE
This fifth voluht by a supposed tour of interesting places, ht be called a German story-book
It was the aim of ”ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE” and ”ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN CLassIC LANDS” toby stories and pictures of places It was the purpose of ”ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE ORIENT” to explain the Eastern Question, and of ”ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE OCCIDENT”
to explain Ho in the West
The purpose of this voluht narrative of travel takes the reader to the places most conspicuously associated with German history, tradition, literature, and art, and in a disconnected way gives a view of theevents of those Northern countries that once constituted a great part of the ene
It is the aiest_ the best historical reading To this end popular stories and pictures are freely used to adapt useful infore, story, and picture, right education and right influence are kept in view
In this voluends and fairy stories have been used, but they are so introduced and guarded as not to leave a wrong i and immature
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ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS
CHAPTER I
THE RIVER OF STORY AND SONG
The Rhine! River of what histories, tragedies, coreatest events of the history of Germany, France, and Northern Europe; with the Rome of Caesar and Aurelian; with the Rooblin lore and beautiful fairy tales of the twilight of Celtic civilization that have been evolved through centuries and have becohtened lands!
A journey down the Rhine is like passing through wonderland; wild stories, quaint stories, legendary and historic stories, are associated with every rood of ground froion of the stories of two thousand years The Rhine is the river of the poet; its banks are the battle-fields of heroes; its forests and villages the fairy lands of old
When Roles over the Rhine; titus sent a part of his army which had conquered Jerusalem to the Rhine; Julian erected a fortress on the Rhine; and Valentinian began the castle-building that was to go on for a thousand years
The period of the Goths, Huns, Celts, and Vandals came,--the conquerors of Rone cleared away the ruins, and began anew the castle-building A Christian soldier in one of the legions that destroyed Jerusaleht the Gospel to the Rhine His name was Crescaitius He was soon followed by missionaries of the Cross Christianity was established upon the Rhine soon after it entered Rome
[Illustration: INTRODUCING CHRISTIANITY INTO THE NORTH]
The great conquests of modern history are directly or indirectly associated with the wonderful river; Caesar, who conquered the world, crossed the Rhine; Attila, who conquered the city of the Caesars; Clovis, who founded the Christian religion in France; and Charlene, who established the Christian church in Germany Frederick Barbarossa and Frederick the Great added lustre to its growing history, and Napoleon gave a yet deeper coloring to its thrilling scenes
[Illustration: CASTLE IN RHINE LAND]
When the Northern nations shattered the Roined that the dismantled castles of the Rhine becas: spirits of the rocks, forests, fens; strange maidens of the red marshes; enchanters, demons; the strealens of the woods, of delightful fairies
[Illustration: TOWER OF RuDESHEIM ON THE RHINE]
Into these regions of shadow, mystery, of heroic history, of moral conflicts and Christian triuo It is especially interesting to the American traveller, for his form of Christianity and republican principles caress to him was cradled on the Rhine, like Moses on the Nile In the Rhine lands Luther taught, and Robinson of Leyden lived and prayed; and froration that is peopling the golden empire of America in the West ”I would be proud of the Rhine were I a Gero; ”of all rivers I prefer the Rhine”