called for an army. Then several thousands surrounded him with great outcries. Again said Brunswik: ‘Now off with the heads of twenty men, now of thirty, now of a hundred, now of a thousand!” Immediately there was such a clatter of heads, that the whole earth quaked. Astriolus, seeing this said: ‘Recollect thyself Brunswik! Recollect thyself for the sake of thy God and sheath thy sword! I promise to conduct thee to thine own country, only commit no more slaughter.” Then said Brunswik: “In sooth I will do so for the sake of my God, but not for thy sake, if thou fulfillest that which thou hast promised, to convey me to mine own land without fear and injury and with the lion.” He made him the promise again.
And it came to pass, that on a Thursday at the first dawn he set Brunswik on a cross-road with all his goods and the lion, When Brunswik found himself before Prague, he put on the garments of a hermit and entered with the lion. Just then King Astronomus was giving his daughter, Brunswik’s wife, to an Assyrian prince named Cleofas; for seven years had now passed since
