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Title: Legends of the Rhine
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline), d. 1929
Subjects: Folklore -- Rhine River Valley Legends -- Rhine River Valley Mythology, Germanic Rhine River Valley -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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one day a courtier mentioned Satans name, and theking, seated upon his throne, shuddered. Surprised at thisdemonstration, Offero questioned his master, and learnedthat Satan was king of the Infernal Regions. Is he more powerful than you, oh, king? thunderedthe giant. Alas! yes, replied the king. Then I shall leave your service, and go in search ofhim, for I have vowed to use my prodigious strength onlyfor the greatest of all monarchs. Offero departed; he had not gone far before he beganto inquire his way, and was delighted to find that everyonehe met could indicate an easy mode to go to the devil. This being the case, you can readily imagine that it didnot take him long to get there. He tendered his services toSatan, who gladly accepted him, and found plenty of workfor him to do. One day Satan bade the giant accompanyhim to the surface of the earth, where there was enoughto occupy them both, and as they passed along a highway,Offero saw his dauntless master tremble and gaze fearfully
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ST. CHRISTOPHER. Tintoretto. COCHEM. 161 to the right and left. In answer to Offeros blunt question,why he acted thus, Satan timorously confessed that hewas afraid. Afraid, exclaimed the giant, and of what, pray? Of that, said Satan, pointing to a rude wooden cross,erected by the roadside. The giants surprise increased, but when Satan graduallyproceeded to inform him that he was so afraid only becauseChrist had died on a similar cross, he imperiously demandedwho Christ might be, and insisted upon knowing whetherHe was more powerful than the master he served. Satan shuffled, hesitated, and finally replied that Christwas king of Heaven, and reluctantly admitted that none wasas powerful as He. Very well, exclaimed Offero, as I have sworn toserve the mightiest only, I will go and seek Christ, and hethen and there left Satan, and started out in search of thenew Master, who was not as easy to find as the one he hadjust left. After much journeying to and fro, Offero was finallytold to seek a

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