A priest of the cathedral of Halberstadt wrote her biography more than a thousand years ago.
We return to the later Kloster Michaelstein, which is not so rich in poetic legends.
Not even a ghostly monk haunts the ruins, nor wanders by moonlight in the venerable cloisters. But on the mountains that surround the dale the two monks, Hans and Henning, still hold guard.
Once the Abbot, fearing the attack of an enemy, sent the unfortunate brothers out to watch, with the command not to return till the enemy approached.
No enemy came, and the Abbot forgot to recall the monks.
They watched conscientiously till they became stone pillars, and stand still there. The face of one, Hans, is of admirable beauty.
There is a legend that once, when the enemy stormed the gates, St. Michael suddenly appeared over the entrance in a flame, with countenance of wrath and drawn sword, at sight of whom every man fled.
Reinhilde of the Königsburg.
The Königsburg stood on the right bank of the Bode, on a mountain not far from Bodfeld. Originally it belonged to the Saxon Kaisers. The Sausenburg was on the left bank of the Bode, about an hour's walk from Elbingerode. Of the latter nothing is now left save the hewings in the stone masses which formed its foundations. From the battlements of its tower the hunting castles Bodfeld and Königsburg could be seen.