 | John Bowring - Dutch language - 1829 - 144 pages
...that' extraordinary and wellknown composition, Reintjen den Foa** are spoken * Bulk, i. 36, 3?. fOm dat van Brabant die Hertoghen, Voormaels dicke syn beloghen, . , Alse dat sy quamen metten Swane. Daar by hebbies my genomen ane, Dat ic die warheit wit ontdecken, Ende in Duitsche Rime vertrecken.... | |
 | Henry Hucks Gibbs - English poetry - 1868 - 80 pages
...Believe me, very sincerely yours, 'ALBERT WAY.' ' Sir Martin Crawley-Boevey.' The tradition that the great Godfrey of Bouillon was descended from the Knight...Historiael. On the other hand (through Godfrey, no doubt,) Robert Copland claims it as an honour for his patron, Edward Duke of Buckingham, that from the Knight... | |
 | Courtesy - 1868 - 452 pages
...the common opinion in Flanders, Om i!;ii van Brabant die Hertoghen Voormaels, dicke syn beloghen Alee dat sy quamen metten Swane [Forasmuch as the Dukes...they came with a Swan], professes to tell the truth ahout it in his Brabandshe Yeesten, written in 1318 ; and Marlaent refers to the same belief in his... | |
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The tradition that the great Godfrey of Bouillon was descended from the Knight of the Swan, has always been a favourite one, and one of the most interesting stories in Otmar's Volksagen is founded on it. Nicolas de Klerc, in order to set right the common... 