Crossword-Solution: SAANE 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Another Swiss rock hermitage is that of the Magdalen near Freiburg, in the cliff on the right bank of the Saane.

The situation, on a high plateau above the Saane, was on the line of demarcation between the French and German tongues.

Vaud was at that time governed by a host of more or less important nobles, such as the barons of Grandson, Cossonay, Blonay, &c., and was contended for by the bishops of Lausanne and Geneva, and the counts of the latter town, whilst the counts of Greyerz governed in the districts of the Saane, and those of Neuchâtel in the lake districts of the Jura.

Then, in 1324, Bern had secured the mortgage of Laupen, an excellent stronghold on the Saane, and had driven the Freiburger from the district.

Here, at the junction of the Saane and the Saave, the scenery became truly magnificent; we had been for some time following the banks of the Saane, and the mountains had been getting closer and higher with every mile we made, till at last they actually came down to the river, allowing a bare passage to the railway which followed its every bend.