The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . d by the two queens, each acting in her sons name. The hatred of the two women hung like a poisonous plague over all theland. In the long struggle Brunhild seems to have grown as wicked and aban-doned as her rival, and they tortured and slew all who opposed them. Theygrew old; Fredegund died, and Brunhild, her vengeance yet unaccomplished,continued the war
The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . d by the two queens, each acting in her sons name. The hatred of the two women hung like a poisonous plague over all theland. In the long struggle Brunhild seems to have grown as wicked and aban-doned as her rival, and they tortured and slew all who opposed them. Theygrew old; Fredegund died, and Brunhild, her vengeance yet unaccomplished,continued the warfare against her enemys son, Clotar II. Brunhilds own sonwearied of the eternal strife and sought peace. He died, perhaps poisoned byhis relentless mother, who now urged her grandsons to continue the last they also wavered. She had both slain and placed her infant great-grandsons on the throne. She was defeated in the end. Her punishment, it is often called; but doyou not think her whole long, hard, and loveless life must have been its ownbitterest punishment? Her own subjects abandoned her and delivered her toClotar. She was tortured for three days and then bound to the tail of a wildhorse and dragged to death (613). , 34. St. Boxiface Fellixg the Oak of Thor Chapter LSAINT BOXIFACE AND THE MAYORS OF THE PALACE .-J, HE generation of Merovingian kings who followed Clotarwere the poor puppies of the fabled vision. They lostwhat little power the long civil wars of their fathers hadleft them. The nobility had learned to keep out of thecontests of their rulers, and to use every e\il turn in akings fortune for establishing more firmly their ownpositions. This, under the feeble monarchs that fol-lowed, brought about a strange state of affairs. The wholepower and government of the country became centred in a fewnobles, chief of whom was the one called the Mayor of thePalace. The kings became mere figure-heads, wearing their long3% golden hair down their backs in sign of roy
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