The conquerors returned to the Hohentwiel, their helmets adorned with green fir-twigs, and leaving twelve of the brothers behind, to watch the dead on the battle-field. Of the Huns, one hundred and eighty had fallen in battle, whilst the Suabian arrier-ban had lost ninety six; those of the Reichenau eighteen, and those of St. Gall twenty, besides the old man and Rauching his bondsman.
With a handkerchief tied round his face, Moengal stalked over the field, using his shilalah like a staff. One by one he examined the dead. "Hast thou not seen a Hun amongst them, who in reality is a Hunnic woman?" asked he of one of the watchkeeping brothers.
"No," was the reply.
"Then I may as well go home," said Moengal.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1]: The Allemannic land or Allemannia as it was then called, consisted of part of the present Würtemberg, Baden and Lothringen; where a dialect, called "Allematmisch" has been preserved to the present day.
[Footnote 2]: These notes, for the greatest part have been omitted, as being of no possible interest to the English reader.
[Footnote 3]: Old German words.
[Footnote 4]: Chriemhilde and Brunhilde.
[Footnote 5]: This fable has its origin in the "historia naturalis" of Plinius.