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100 1 _aSchmitthenner, Adolf,
_d1854-1907
240 1 4 _aDie Frühglocke. Finnish
245 1 0 _aAamukellot
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-11
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Aamukellot" by Adolf Schmitthenner is a historical novella written in the early 20th century. Set in a Renaissance German town under Elector Ottheinrich, it follows a young stranger, Sabinus, who kills a court servant in a quarrel at a dance and is condemned to be shot at dawn. The tale centers on Veronika, a compassionate local girl, and the Elector himself as conscience, mercy, and public justice collide around the fate of the condemned youth. The opening of the story shows a crowd escorting the wounded, captured Sabinus through town, where Ottheinrich intervenes, has his bonds loosened, questions him about the fatal brawl over Veronika, and fixes the execution to the end of the morning bells. That night Veronika, desperate to save him, secretly enters the church, climbs the tower, removes one bell’s clapper and muffles another, then at dawn keeps the third bell ringing without pause so the signal to shoot never comes, throwing the town into panic over “bewitched” bells. Seeing both the girl’s courage and a way to temper justice with mercy, Ottheinrich slips into the tower, restores the bells with Veronika, and quietly arranges Sabinus’s release and flight to fight honorably in Hungary, while his aide prepares horses, clothes, money, and a letter of introduction. The section closes with the Elector’s private rescue plan in motion and a promise to Veronika that, if Sabinus returns with honor, he will seek her hand on the young man’s behalf. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Otava, 1910
653 _aGerman fiction -- Translations into Finnish
700 1 _aPakkala, Teuvo,
_d1862-1925
856 4 _uhttps://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/145030
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76270
999 _c116995
_d116995