And, besides, large tracts of country;
Even a great saint became he.
Have ye never heard the legend
Of the court-day, and [ Count Ursus],
Which the statues o'er the church door
Have preserved e'en to the present?
A great saint, indeed, became he,
And is still the Rhineland's patron.
To this day prevails the custom
That the peasants have their first-born