"IN THE YEARS 1138 - 1268" ""Emperor, darling of justice, resolve the disputes!"" "NEWS OF THE STAUFERS" "An opera in 4 acts by Giuseppe Verdi." "Frederick Barbarossa, Battle Victim." "Uncanniness of time." "The Emperor shall protect us from sinister things." "If the bough of a fruit tree hangs over a neighbour's fence,  he may cut it off." "The goats are not allowed to stay in the village during the day." "The local shepherd drives them out." "In return, he's given sheep's cheese." "The Emperor's eye sees it all." "ERNST KANTOROWICZ" "EMPEROR FREDERICK THE SECOND" ""The legend of child exchange"" ""It's said Frederick's a butcher's son."" ""The same was said also of" "Frederick's son, King Henry (Vll)."" ""Caesar"" ""The public delivery"" ""Even if our superiority is immune to every law, it is nonetheless not above the judgment of reason, the mother of law."" ""This Emperor, the world's true ruler, believed himself to be of a heavenly nature, perhaps... due to his experience of maths."" "A condemned man descends at the Emperor's wish into a chasm,  to bring him rare white falcons." "Afterwards he is free." ""Because when falcons are blinded (their eyelids sewn up) they don't sense the meat thrown to them, even though their sense of smell is unimpaired."" ""We put that to the test several times."" ""They say Frederick ordered the dissection of 2 men after dinner, one who rested and one who didn't, to find out which one had better digested his food."" "Apex of medical science at the University of Salerno." ""Craftily sly, sensually evil and irascible"" "was what the Emperor called an enemy." "Should I say: "No images of this Emperor survived." "His enemies destroyed his statues with vigour"?" "Or "destroyed them with care"?" "Yes?" "Especially the church." "The Emperor bust at the gate of Capua." "That one speaks for itself." ""Despite the mishaps, we shall not yield in our superiority."" "He wanted to know if flowers grow on the sea-bed." "FREDERICK BARBAROSSA, EMPEROR RED-BEARD" ""FLAXEN HAIRED", "HEARTY"" "It wasn't he that had a red beard,  but his grandson, Frederick II." ""AN UNFORGIVING HEART"" "Loses the Battle of Legnano due to his irascibility." ""POWERFUL"" ""But the forefather had cleverly fled overseas, leaving the flaxen haired king in wonderment at the water's secret" "As the cloud steamed crimson above the ship."" "The animals looked at one another,  dumbly contemplating fodder." "THE NON-EMPEROR" "Barbarossa's son." "Marching onwards to Italy." "The Pope." "St. Peter's." "The anointing." "The sceptre." "The crown." "Then Emperor Henry." "The Bohemian warriors." "Bavarienses, the Bavarian warriors." "WOMEN" "An empress gives her baby,  the young Emperor,  to the Duchess of Urslingen." "MOTHER AND SON " "A FEELING OF PROTEST / WIDE WORLD" "The epic of Duke Ernst of Swabia,  1180, a historical novel." "The dear mother married the Emperor, the stepfather." "The Duke stabs to death a schemer at court." "He must flee into the wide world." "It is over." "Yearning." "The ship falls within the influence of the magnetic mountain." "All that is iron must leave the ship." "With Count Wetzel holding the light,  voyaging to the centre of the earth." "The Duke strikes carbuncle stone from the wet cave walls." "Humans with bird heads." "Correct, the king of the bird-heads is the stepfather." "The Duke gets him." "The griffon helps him." "Overcoming the abyss." "In the distance he receives a secret message from his dear mother." "At Christmas 1180 he throws himself at the feet of the Emperor." "He himself becomes king." ""Ernst is my name." "I am earnest." "And shall be earnest all my life long."" "WAR" "Suddenly, within a few years,  the dynasty has disappeared." "Frederick Il, 1250." "EMPEROR FREDERICK THE SECOND died in a fever." "With few witnesses." "King Conrad, his son, dead." "King Manfred,  illegitimate son of Frederick Il,  slaughtered." "Conradin beheaded in Naples." "Propaganda of the Staufer Party." "Conrad reached, 54- 68, 52 - 68, the age of 16 years." "The Emperor left for the Orient." "There he drowned at Salef." "His soul is received up above." "The Emperor is truly dead." "Baron vom Stein, who financed the painting, bears witness." "Deep beneath the Kyffhäuser in the shimmering red light,  old Emperor Frederick sits at his table of marble." "Around him, as though in honour,  his knights all stand," "Armour glistening, swords in place,  but as deep in slumber as he." "Until the morning suddenly breaks with its burning heat." "The gate swings open,  moaning loudly in its hinges:" "Barbarossa and his men ascend,  armed to the teeth." "OPERATION BARBAROSSA, GENERAL WINTER" "Operation Barbarossa led to Stalingrad and back." "And all peoples alike submit to the old Emperor and, back in Aachen,  he finds the Holy German Empire." ""since those of German race stand loyal and proud."" "Local Nazi leader Kuennecke,  with headquarters formerly in Aachen,  hypothesized in April 1945:" "The only thing that will help now against the Allied armies and bombers is some decisive action from the Kyffhäuser mountain area." "Deep beneath the Kyffhäuser in the shimmering red light,  old Emperor Frederick sits..." "The farmers waited a long time for the Emperor to return." ""Emperor, darling of justice, resolve the disputes!"" "J. Michelet, 'The Witch', Leipzig 1863." ""The natural order of life comprises the two things that define hell." "On one hand,  extraordinary constancy." "The man was bound to the rock,  making emigration impossible." "On the other hand,  the very great uncertainty regarding the conditions said to apply." "One must pay the master a certain amount,  but he can take all that's left as well." "Toil, toil, good man." "And while you toil in the fields,  the mob, charging along,  can cast itself on your house and remove what they like." "One observes this man:" "how gloomy his countenance,  as he advances in his furrow." "No emperor is there to help him." "There never was."