Undine
No other proof can I or will I produce, but this I will affirm in the presence of God. The person who gave me this information was the very same who decoyed the infant Bertalda into the water, and who, after thus taking her from her parents, placed her on the green grass of the meadow, where he...
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No other proof can I or will I produce, but this I will affirm in the presence of God. The person who gave me this information was the very same who decoyed the infant Bertalda into the water, and who, after thus taking her from her parents, placed her on the green grass of the meadow, where he knew the duke was to pass."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781587156892 (158715689X)
Publish date: May 1st 2002
Publisher: Wildside Press
Pages no: 128
Edition language: Deutsch
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