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OF FIDELITY.
TALE XCIX.
OF FIDELITY.
Paulus, the historian of the Longobards, mentions a certain Onulphus, surnamed Papien, a knight who gave signal proofs of fidelity to his master, King Portaticus; insomuch, that he exposed himself to death for his safety. For when Grimmoaldus, duke of Beneventum, forcibly entered the pavilion of Godobert, king of the Longobards, (afterwards treacherously slain by Geribaldus[1], duke of Ravenna, the first betrayer of a royal crown,) Portaticus, the brother of the aforesaid king Godobert, flying to the Hungarians, was reconciled to Grimmoaldus by the
- ↑ He is called Genebaldus here, and afterwards Geribaldus, in all the five different editions I have inspected.
