[Footnote 1: The _Allemannic_ land or _Allemannia_ as it was then called, consisted of part of the present Würtemberg, Baden and Lothringen; where a dialect, called "_Allematmisch_" has been preserved to the present day.] [Footnote 2: These notes, for the greatest part have been omitted, as being of no possible interest to the English reader.] [Footnote 3: Old German words.] [Footnote 4: Chriemhilde and Brunhilde.] [Footnote 5: This fable has its origin in the "_historia naturalis_" of Plinius.] [Footnote 6: A peculiar kind of fish in the Bodensee.] [Footnote 7: This it had, surely enough; for when lately a learned son of the emerald isle, paid a visit to the library of St. Gallus, there to inspect the work of his pious countryman, he soon burst into a merry laugh, and then the Rector of Dublin, translated some of the Irish comments as follows: "God be thanked that it is getting dark!" "St. Patrick of Armagh release me from this book-writing." "Oh, that I had a glass of good old wine beside me" etc.] [Footnote 8: Ausonius. Idyll. 7.] [Footnote 9: The curious custom, that by this act, called the "_Chrene Chruda_," the debt passed on to the next relation by blood, who was able to pay it, is described in Merkel's "_lex Salica_." The origin of "_Chrene Chruda_" has not yet been sufficiently explained.] [Footnote 10: A kind of caterpillars, migrating in large numbers.] [Footnote 11: Places notorious for their sour bad wines.] [Footnote 12: Revelation XX, 7.] * * * * * PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER. * * * * * End of Project Gutenberg's Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II), by Joseph Victor Scheffel