By Karen Miller
While KINGDOMS conflict, each CROWN could be TARNISHED by way of THE BLOODY expense OF AMBITION.
A bastard lord leads a uprising opposed to his tyrant king -- and needs to reside with the implications of victory.
A royal widow plots to win her daughter's freedom from the formidable lords who could keep watch over them both.
An orphaned prince units his eyes on regaining his father's stolen throne.
And brothers, divided by means of ambition, will study that the better the facility, the extra risky the game.
A masterful story of the thirst for strength and the price of betrayal. Epic fable at its bloodiest, action-packed most sensible.
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Jahrhunderts, Gottingen 1838. HAEFELE = H. F. HAEFELE, Vita Waltharii manufortis, Festschrift BISCHOFF, 1971, 260ff. HOFMANN-SZANTYR = Lat. Syntax u. Stilistik von J. B. HOFMANN, bearh. v. A. SZANTYR, Miinmen 1965. KLOPSCH = P. KLOPSCH, Einfiihrung in die mittellateinische Verslehre, Darmstadt 1972. LANGOSCH = K. LANGOSCH, "Waltharius". Die Dichtung und die Forschung, Darmstadt 1973 (= Wissenschaftlime Buchgesellsmaft, Ertrage der Forsmung, Bd. ) LEISE RING und HARTMANN, Der FuB des pferdes sowie anderer Einhufer und Klauentiere, 14.
LANGOSCH, Waltharius. Ruodlieb. )228 Abkiirzungen AH Analecta Hymnica DA Deutsches Archiv fur Erforschung des Mittelalters HZ Historische Zeitschrift MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica MWb. = Mittellateinisches Worterbuch NovGloss = Novum Glossarium PBB Beitrage zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (Tubingen) ThLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae ZfdA Zeitschrift fur deutsches Altertum In Abkiirzung ofters angefiihrte Literatur ALTHOF = H. ALTHOF, Waltharii poesis, I-II, Leipzig 1899,1905.
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