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Within, on a pile of damp leaves, lay Etelina and her child, both half-dead with starvation. Rheinhards anger speedily melted at the pathetic sight, and he freely forgave his daughter and Rudolph, his hitherto unrecognized guide, and bade them return with him to Okkenfels. Etelinas first request was for a pardon for the old chaplain, and Rheinhard himself went to raise the heavy trap-door.
While peering into the gloom, however, he stumbled and fell headlong into the dungeon below. A judgment! he shrieked as he fell, then all was silence. The bruised remains of the proud baron were interred in the parish church of Linz, and henceforth Etelina and her husband lived happily at Okkenfels.
However, it is unlikely that the people of antiquity would bestow a geological name upon any locality. Okkenfels: A Rash Oath On a rugged crag overlooking the Rhine above the town of Linz stands the ruined stronghold of Okkenfels. History tells us little or nothing concerning this ancient fortress, but legend covers the deficiency with the tale of the Barons Rash Oath.
Rheinhard von Renneberg, according to the story, flourished about the beginning of the eleventh century, when the Schloss Okkenfels was a favourite rendezvous with the rude nobility of the surrounding district. Though they were none of them distinguished for their manners, by far the most rugged and uncouth was the Baron von Renneberg himself.
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