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“ L’eloquence passionnfee du chevalier“ parvint facilement a detourner Berthe de“ sa resolution & a l’engager a le prendre“ pour 6poux, mais la soeur ain6e persista“ dans son dessein de rester dans laretraite.“ Diether lui fit b&tir un ermitage plus“ commode & une chapelle cL cotb ou re-“ posent encore ses cendres.”
This chapel is now much frequented bypilgrims, and stands on the summit of themountain embosomed in woods, andscarcely visible from the river.
Appendix, 50.
The ruins of the palace of Charlemagne at Ingelheim , are not far from hence, andrecalled to my mind the romantic loves ofEginhard and Emma. But it seems thatthe following legend is more current here ;the abbess told me 1 might believe it, for itwas related by Jacques Schoper.
“ Charlemagne had a brother named Ta-“ land, and it was to him that he confided