Unterwalden

Burgher of Soleure, seemed to hold the consequences of war more lightly than they were viewed by the cautious Landam. man of Unterwalden, and his venerable companion, Nicholas Bonstetten, who subscribed to all his opinions.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

“I would not advise retreat,” said Rudolph Donnerhugel, were my life alone concerned: but the Landamman of Unterwalden is the father of the United Cantons, and it would be parricide if I consented to put his life in peril.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

I am Sigismund Biederman, the son of the Landamman of Unterwalden —

Anne of Geierstein 2008

He united himself closely with the state of Unterwalden, became a citizen of the

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Unterwalden and the elder Philipson walked on in company, conversing chiefly on the political relations of France, England, and Burgundy, until the conversation was changed as they entered the gate of the old castleyard of Geierstein, where arose the lonely and dismantled keep, surrounded by the ruins of other buildings.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Unterwalden, and fancy recalled the moments when his walks through such scenery were not solitary, but when there was a form by his side, whose simple beauty was engraved on his memory.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

The party of Swiss which came up proved to be Sigismund, with his brother Ernest, and some of the youths of Unterwalden.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

On they rushed, and there was a rending of lances that would have served the Unterwalden old women with splinters of firewood for a twelvemonth.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Geierstein, they looked but like another girl and bachelor, only that Anne is so very handsome; but now they move in time and manner as if they were leading a stately pavin, and behave to each other with as much formal respect as if he were Landamman of the Unterwalden, and she the first lady of Berne.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

On the other hand, I succeeded, with help of a body of the peasants of Unterwalden, in storming the Castle of Geierstein.

Anne of Geierstein 2008