Followed the weir-wolf’s bark.
Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor.
Werner, the boy said to have been crucified at Bacharach, on the Rhine, by the Jews. (See Hugh of Lincoln.)
The innocent boy who, some years back,
Was taken and crucified by the Jews
In that ancient town of Bacharach.
Longfellow, The Golden Legend (1851).
Werner or Kruitzner (Count of Siegendorf), father of Ulric. Being driven from the dominions of his father, he wandered about for twelve years as a beggar, hunted from place to place by Count Stral´enheim. At length, Stralenheim, travelling through Silesia, was rescued from the Oder by Gabor (alias Ulric), and was lodged in an old tumble-down palace, where Werner had been lodging for some few days. Here Werner robbed the count of a rouleau of gold, the next day the count was murdered by Ulric (without the connivance or even knowledge of Werner). When Werner succeeded to the rank and wealth of Count Siegendorf, he became aware that his son, Ulric, was the murderer, and denounced him. Ulric departed, and Werner said, “The race of Siegendorf is past.”--Byron, Werner (1821).
(This drama is borrowed from “Kruitzner, or The German’s Tale,” in Miss H. Lee’s Canterbury Tales, 1797-1805).
Werner. (See Trumpeter of Sackingen.)