Crossword-Solution: EKKEHARD 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Victor Scheffel (the author of "Ekkehard," the "Trompeter von Sackingen," the "Bergpsalmen," etc.) has written the Festival Play, which is to be performed in the theater here on the 9th July.

Ekkehard, in his Chronicon Universale {12}, which ends 1126 A.D., points out the chronological contradiction between Jornandes, who places the death of Ermanrich long before Attila, and the popular story which makes him and Dietrich, the son of Dietmar, his contemporaries.

Corydon mastered new lists of German words, and they read Freitag’s “Verlorene Handscrift” together, and von Scheffel’s “Ekkehard”, and even attempted “Iphigenie auf Tauris”--though in truth they found it difficult to detach themselves to quite that extent from the world of every-day.

Paul Meyer that though the fictitious narrative obtained wide acceptance, and even admission into their historical compilations by Vincent of Beauvais, Ekkehard, and others, a more sober tradition as to the hero obtained likewise.

Ekkehard's story is thus summarized in the _Cambridge History of English Literature_: "Alphere, king of Aquitaine, had a son named Waltharius, and Heriricus, king of Burgundy, an only daughter named Hiltgund, who was betrothed to Waltharius.