Crossword-Solution: RECKE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Nor for no dread of death shall I not spare To see my lady that I love and serve; In her presence *I recke not to sterve.*” *do not care if I die* And with that word he caught a great mirror, And saw that changed was all his colour, And saw his visage all in other kind.

But of my tale how shall I do this day? Me were loth to be liken’d doubteless To Muses, that men call Pierides (Metamorphoseos wot what I mean), But natheless I recke not a bean, Though I come after him with hawebake*; *lout I speak in prose, and let him rhymes make.” And with that word, he with a sober cheer Began his tale, and said as ye shall hear.

When the survivors came back to their deserted homes, they found the child living with its adopted mother, and called it Aegisthus." Doctor Tylor calls attention to the prevalence of similar stories in Germany after the destruction and devastation of the Napoleonic wars; there appears to be record of several children wild or animal-reared having, during this period, been received into Count von Recke's asylum at Overdyke.

The ten years which had gone by since they had visited the Orphan Asylum at Düsselthal, near this town, had wrought a great change in the physical condition of Count Von der Recke.

Dass unter dem Himmel habe ein andrer Recke mehr, 5 Denn er, des Ruhms auf Erden, war ihm zu tragen schwer: ‘Bist {der} Beówulf Du, der einst sich in der weiten Flut Mit Breca mass im Schwimmen? Zu hoch vermass sich da Dein Mut! ‘Ihr spranget in die Wellen, vermessen wagtet ihr Das Leben in die Tiefe, aus Ruhm und Ehrbegier! 10 Die Fahrt, die schreckensvolle, nicht Freund noch Feind verleiden Euch konnte.