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Updated: July 12, 2025
The confederates rushed forward through the gap thus opened by the sacrifice of their comrade, broke and cut down their enemy's ranks, and soon became the masters of the field. "Dear and faithful confederates, I will open you a passage. Protect my wife and children," were the words of Winkelried as he rushed to death. The Urphede was an oath of peculiar force.
No fault of mine it was, that he, who quenched My father's eyesight, should go hence unharmed. He fled I followed overtook and seized him, And dragged him to my father's feet. The sword Already quivered o'er the caitiff's head, When at the entreaty of the blind old man, I spared the life for which he basely prayed. He swore Urphede , never to return: He'll keep his oath, for he has felt our arm.
When a man who was at feud with another, invaded his lands and was worsted, he often made terms with his enemy by swearing the Urphede, by which he bound himself to depart and never to return with a hostile intention; By Frederich Schiller DON CARLOS, Prince, Son of Philip. ALEXANDER FARNESE, Prince of Parma.
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