Excerpt from The Library of Romance, Vol. 13
The fortress itself consisted of several rambling and incongruous buildings, the production of dif ferent eras and different rulers. The more ele vated parts of the castle, with the strongest towers and thickest walls, were ascribed to the dukes of Rabenberg, who, during the ferocious and devas tating inroads of the Huns and Avari, found high watch-towers indispensably requisite, against the sudden attacks of rude marauders. At the period.
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