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Traditional Western Art: Barbarossa’s Awakening by Hermann Wislicenus

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Traditional Western Art: Barbarossa’s Awakening by Hermann Wislicenus

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“Legend says he is not dead, but asleep with his knights in a cave in the Kyffhäuser mountain in Thuringia, and that when the ravens cease to fly around the mountain he will awake and restore Germany to its ancient greatness. According to the story, his red beard has grown through the table at which he sits. His eyes are half closed in sleep, but now and then he raises his hand and sends a boy out to see if the ravens have stopped flying.”