Excerpt from The Cradle of the Hapsburgs It was on a day, ages since, that a man wandered through these realms of pinewood. The Count of Altenburg had lost his hawk, and his long search brought him at last to the summit of the Wulpelsberg; there he found his hawk and founded his house.1 Delighted with the panorama spread before his eyes, be determined to build a castle on the spot; and, in process of time, the Habicht, or hawk, gave his master not only a home but a name, for the new stronghold was christened Habichtburg, which in time became shortened to Habsburg. The older castle, thus discarded, stood on that outlet of land formed by the confluence of the rivers Aare and Reuss, and its remains to this day are dear to the archaeologist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.