Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Anne of Geierstein, or the Maiden of the Mist, Vol. 1 of 3
But wonder and attention began to be attract ed towards these mountaineers, about the mid dle of the fourteenth century, when reports were spread abroad of severe contests, in which the German chivalry, endeavouring to suppress in surrections among their Alpine vassals, had sus tained repeated and bloody defeats, although having on their side numbers and discipline.
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