Legends of the Rhine {various larger editions}
by Wilhelm Ruland
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"Last year I made the journey between Mainz and Bonn on one of our splendid Rhine steamers. Our vessel glided along like a great water-bird. On the shore rose mountains, castles, and ruins, and over all the sun shined brightly from a blue August sky. It was twelve years since I had visited the scenes of my youth, and every Rhinelander will understand with what pleasure I saw again those smiling landscapes arrayed in their summer beauty. Wandering back to my deckchair, I soon became absorbed show more in the ever-changing panorama. " show lessTags
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A fun little volume of stories of places along the Rhine river - these stories are NOT fairy tales - more legends about individuals from the black ages - there are a lot of stories about knights and prices going on a crusade, while their love stays at home. As a whole, not a great volume, there isn't any annotation so a reader might need a dictionary on had. The illustrations are varied and depict scenes from the stories.
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- Canonical title
- Legends of the Rhine {various larger editions}
- Original title
- Rheinisches Sagenbuch
- Alternate titles
- Rheinsagen; De Rijnsagen
- Original publication date
- 1896 (German) (German); 1906 (English) (English)
- Important places
- Rüdesheim am Rhein, Hesse, Germany; Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; Assmannshausen, Hesse, Germany; Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Cleves, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (show all 12); Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Rhine River; Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany; Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; Ingelheim am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Original language
- German
- Disambiguation notice
- Abridged in English as The Finest Legends of the Rhine {Small Edition; 25 stories}, further abridged in The Finest Legends of the Rhine {Small Edition; 18 stories}; see Book description CK.
The Dutch second edition (1922) consists of 41 stories, abridged from Ruland's larger collection, Rheinsiches Sagenbuch (1896, etc.); see Book description CK.
This Work includes multiple, undifferentiated German-language editions of Ruland's original anthology, Rheinisches Sagenbuch; see Book description CK.
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- Dutch, English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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- ASINs
- 17
