The magic ring, Vol. 3 (of 3) by La Motte-Fouqué

"The magic ring, Vol. 3 (of 3)" by La Motte-Fouqué is a romance novel written in the early 19th century. This volume blends chivalric adventure, Christian piety, and Eastern pageantry around a talismanic ring. It follows Bertha von Lichtenried, Sir Folko de Montfaucon, and their circle—including Gabrielle, Blanchefleur, and the emir Nurreddin—through abductions, rescues, conversions, and sea-borne quests. At the start of the novel, Bertha is tricked by her Moorish maid Zulma into going to a coastal cross and is seized by Alhafiz despite storm, thunder, and her courageous warnings. In Carthagena, the merchant Theobaldo uses the ring to revive Folko from a tomb, charm guards and a chained tiger, and free Gabrielle and Blanchefleur to Don Hernandez’s ship, while the emir pointedly does not pursue. Brought before Nurreddin, Bertha’s presence leads him to execute her abductors, honour his pledged reward, treat her with reverence, and—after sharing a tale hinting at his own origins—take her to sea, where her calm faith counters his grand plan to assail Rome; at Ostia he and many of his men receive baptism from the pope. In a contrasting thread, Folko’s storm-tossed voyage ends at Genoa, a challenge to Theobaldo dissolves into a humiliating illusion, and the proud Count Vinciguerra departs. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de, 1777-1843
Title The magic ring, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Original Publication Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1825.
Credits Tom Trussel, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language English
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject German fiction -- Translations into English
Subject Romances
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EBook-No. 77099
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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