Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
Then he rose and bade Turpin have the remains of his wife buried that same day. So it happened that Fastrada's remains were brought to their last resting place in the Church of St. Albans at Mayence. From that time the emperor was attached with rare devotion to the old Archbishop of Rheims. He would not allow him to leave his side, but requested that Turpin should always live near him.
He saw the wonderful ring on Fastrada's finger glittering with a thousand lovely colours and surrounding the emperor with a magic light. The bishop was now sure that the precious stone was the cause of the superhuman love the emperor bore to his wife.
Later on it was called Aix-la-Chapelle, and became the favourite residence of the great emperor. Within its walls he liked best to rest from the burden of affairs of State, and sometimes the old ruler could be seen sitting by the margin of the spring in which Fastrada's ring lay buried, recalling the sweet memories of past days. Knight Roland
There was an oppressiveness in the atmosphere to Brian; everything spoke to him of death and decay in that strange, old city, which might veritably be called a city of the dead. He turned aside into the cloisters, and listened mechanically while an old man discoursed to him in crabbed German concerning Fastrada's tomb and the carved face of the minstrel Frauenlob upon the cloister wall.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking