title: Legends of the Rhine
author: Wilhelm Ruland
description: The Legends of the Rhine are interwoven with the history of centuries. Classic story written beautifully.
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  # Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Lewis Spence
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  CHAPTER I—TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL
  
  
  CHAPTER II—THE RHINE IN FOLKLORE AND LITERATURE
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER III—CLEVES TO THE LOeWENBURG
  
  
  CHAPTER IV—DRACHENFELS TO RHEINSTEIN
  
  
  CHAPTER V—FALKENBURG TO AUERBACH
  
  
  CHAPTER VI—WORMS AND THE NIBELUNGENLIED
  
  
  CHAPTER VII—HEIDELBERG TO SAeCKINGEN
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by Steve Pond
  
  
  
  
  
  HERO TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE RHINE
  
  
  By Lewis Spence (1874-1955)
  
  
  Originally published: Hero tales &legends of the Rhine.
  
  
  London; New York:
  
  
  George C. Harrap, 1915.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### INTRODUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  An abundance of literature exists on the subject of the Rhine and
  
  
  its legends, but with few exceptions the works on it which are
  
  
  accessible to English-speaking peoples are antiquated in spirit and
  
  
  verbiage, and their authors have been content t