How did Aldinger die?

Aldinger died of natural causes just after he arrived in his home village.

Later that afternoon two peasant children came along to gather hazelnuts. They screamed and ran headlong to their parents out in the field. Their father, after looking at the man, sent one of the children to the next field to get Neighbor Wolbert. Wolbert said: "Well, if it isn't Aldinger!" Then the first peasant also recognized him. Young and old stood among the hazel bushes, looking down upon the dead man. Finally the two peasants improvised a stretcher on which they carried him into the village, past the guards.