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Title: Felicitas
A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476

Author: Felix Dahn

Translator: Mary J. Safford

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FELICITAS

FELICITAS

_A TALE OF THE GERMAN MIGRATIONS_
A.D. 476

BY
FELIX DAHN

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY
M. A. C. E.

LONDON
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1883
[_All rights reserved_]

CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

FELICITAS.

INTRODUCTION.

Some years ago I was at work in Salzburg: in the library among the old
records, and in the Museum of Roman antiquities.

My studies were principally concerned with the fifth century: the time
when the Germanic tribes invaded these regions, the Roman garrisons
retiring with or without resistance, while many settlers remained in
the land. Peasants, trades-people, mechanics, would not forsake their
homes, nor give up their lucrative occupations, would not quit their
valued, long-cherished plots of ground, but stayed under the rule of
the Barbarian; who, when the storm and battle of conquest were over,
and the division of the country completed, did not molest them.

The work of the day over, I wandered in the beautiful, long-familiar
country of the Salzach valley; the warm June evenings permitted long
wanderings up to a late hour. Thought and fanc