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Jack, the Giant-killer type, as modern gentlemen do of their savage aboriginal ancestry. Hallam, referring to the plundering barons of the
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and the legends engrafted upon their ferocious deeds, says:--
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Germany appears to have been, upon the whole, the country where downright robbery was most unscrupulously practised by the great. Their castles, erected on almost inaccessible heights among the woods, became the secure receptacles of predatory bands, who spread terror over the country. From these barbarian lords of the dark ages, as from a living model, the romances are said to have drawn their giants and other disloyal enemies of true chivalry.