The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . MIDDLE AGES Send us our brothers children, that we may placethem on the throne. When the children were sent, a messenger returnedto the grandmother, bearing a SAvord and a pair ofshears, and telling her to choose whether the boys should be shorn orslain. In despair theold queen cried out:I would ratherknow that theywere dead thanshorn! Probably she didnot mean this; butthe pitiless unclestook her at herword. Two of theboys were cruellyslain. The third es-caped from theirhands, and to savehis life he cut offhis o
The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . MIDDLE AGES Send us our brothers children, that we may placethem on the throne. When the children were sent, a messenger returnedto the grandmother, bearing a SAvord and a pair ofshears, and telling her to choose whether the boys should be shorn orslain. In despair theold queen cried out:I would ratherknow that theywere dead thanshorn! Probably she didnot mean this; butthe pitiless unclestook her at herword. Two of theboys were cruellyslain. The third es-caped from theirhands, and to savehis life he cut offhis own hair andbecame a a time, the laud of the Franks was divided intotwo divisions, and the people were called respectivelyEast Franks and West Franks. Each land had aseparate government. The AVest Franks graduallycame to speak a language which was based on the oldLatin language which the Romans had introduced intoGaul; and, long afterward, this grew into the Frenchtongue of to-day. The East Franks, on the other hand,kept their old Germanic tongue, which finally de-. DESCENDANTS OF CLOVISFrom statues carved at the entrance to a church DESCENDANTS OF CLOVIS 73 veloped into the German language as it is nowspoken. About a hundred years after the time of Clovis,two terrible women were queens in these lands. Theirnames were Fredegonda and Brunhilda; Fredegonda and their iealousy and hatred of each other and Brunhilda. caused them to commit many murders andstir up many wars. It is hard to say which of thetwo was the worse, but we feel some pity for Brunhildabecause of her terrible end. She had ruined hergrandchildren in order that she might keep the powerin her own hands, and she was charged with causingthe death of ten kings of Frankish race. But at lastshe fell into the hands of her enemies; and althoughshe was an old woman of eighty years, she was put todeath by being dragged at the heels of a wild terrible rival had died some years before. In many respects th
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