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He therefore cast about for a means of verifying his suspicions, and eventually disguised himself as a wandering minstrel, took his harp for he had great skill as a musician and set off in the direction of Sooneck.
In truth it interests me, responded Edwin, nevertheless veiling his concern as much as possible by a seeming indifference. Is it a prison, think you? Ay, that it is, replied the peasant with a laugh. Tis the cage where my lord of Sooneck keeps the birds whose feathers he has plucked.
In the next moment the silver clang resounded, as the goblet fell on the floor. "Shoot now," said Siebold of Sooneck, and immediately an arrow pierced his mouth. With a grunt like a slaughtered ox, Siebold sank among the rushes. Silent and motionless with the two eye-cavities gaping, stood the blind man. Then his shaggy head sank on his heaving breast.
"Death were dearer to me than life," murmured the blind archer. As he seized the crossbow however, a gleam of joy went over his countenance like a ray of sunshine over a sombre landscape. Crowded together in a corner of the room the guests watched the proceedings. The lord of Sooneck seized a goblet and ordered the prisoner to draw upon it, after hearing the sound.
They rest together in front of the altar in the Clement's Chapel which is situated across the Rhine from Assmannshausen. Castle Rheinstein stands in renewed youthful beauty on the edge of its precipitous cliff overlooking our noble stream. The Blind Archer In his stronghold at Sooneck, Siebold, one of the most rapacious of the robber barons presided over a godless revel.
Like a flock of frightened crows the knights and their paramours fled, and only a few terrified squires and servants muttered prayers over the body of the lord of Sooneck. The Mother's Ghost Lambert of Fürstenberg was a hearty jovial knight, and had married Wiltrud, a daughter of the Florsheim family. He was attached to his gentle wife, who had just presented him with a son and heir.
He had one son, Edwin, a handsome young man who bade fair to equal his father in skill and renown. Sir Oswald had a sworn foe in a neighbouring baron, Wilm von Sooneck, a rich, unscrupulous nobleman who sought by every possible means to get the knight into his power.
The burning of the castles of Reichenstein, Sooneck, Heimburg and others, was an awful sight to the inhabitants of the valley below. Numerous members of these ancient noble races met the death of felons, and their bodies were hung up on trees as a warning to others. Through the gates of Mainz many a robber baron was led as a prisoner by the soldiers of the emperor.
At length his cunning schemes met with success; an ambush was laid for the unsuspecting Oswald as he rode past Sooneck Castle, attended only by a groom, and both he and his servant were flung into a tower, there to await the pleasure of their captor. And what that noblemans pleasure was soon became evident.
Accordingly, on the day fixed for the feast he again donned his minstrels garb, and repaired to the Schloss Sooneck. Here, as he had anticipated, all was excitement and gaiety. Wine flowed freely, tongues were loosened, and the minstrel was welcomed uproariously and bidden to sing his best songs in return for a beaker of Rhenish.
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