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The territory belonging to Bologna la Grassa concenters all its charms in a happy embonpoint, which leaves no wrinkle unfilled up, no bone to be discerned; like the fat figure of Gunhilda at Fonthill, painted by Chevalier Cafali, with a face full of woe, but with a sleekness of skin that denotes nothing less than affliction.
"Then why say taken, to me from whom all is taken? husband, sons, wealth, land, renown, power, power which I loved, wretch that I was, as well as husband and as sons? Ah God! the girl is right. Better to rot in the convent, than writhe in the world. Better never to have had, than to have had and lost." "Amen!" said Gunhilda.
Gunpowder was not really discovered until the fifteenth century, but long before this a kind of machine, or gun, for hurling great stones, or sometimes arrows, had been used. In the Middle Ages weapons of this sort were called by proper names, just as ships are now. A common name for them was the woman's name Gunhilda, which would be turned into Gunna for short.
Hast thou brought me the blood of the victims to drink? Ah! there is Gunhilda. What right hast thou to complain if I slew thee, which I did not, at least not with my own hands: thy brother Sweyn has slain thousands. I did not at least kill my father; I have only disgraced his name, as you will say. "O Edmund! Edmund! protect me."
Will not our souls be richer thereby, through all eternity?" "In Purgatory?" asked Gunhilda. "In Purgatory, or where else you will. I love my love; and though my love prove false, he has been true; though he trample me under foot, he has held me in his bosom; though he kill me, he has lived for me. What I have had will still be mine, when that which I have shall fail me."
Not since we sat starving on the Flat-Holme there, in the Severn sea. I have become as foul as my own fortunes: and why not? It is all of a piece. Why should not beggars beg unwashed?" But when Torfrida offered Gunhilda the bath she declined. "I have done, lady, with such carnal vanities. What use in cleansing that body which is itself unclean, and whitening the outside of this sepulchre?
"Doubtless the blessed St. Bertin, beneath whose shadow we repose here in peace," said Hereward, somewhat dryly. "I will go barefoot to his altar to-morrow, and offer my last jewel," said Gunhilda. "You," said Gyda, without noticing her daughter, "are, above all men, the man who is needed."
"Charitable to the poor, kind and agreeable to her attendants, courteous to strangers, and only severe to herself," Gunhilda had lingered on in a world of war and crime; and had gone, it may be, to meet Torfrida beyond the grave, and there finish their doubtful argument. The Countess was served with food in Torfrida's chamber. Hereward and his wife refused to sit, and waited on her standing.
Gisela, d. of Hermann II, Duke of Swabia. | + HENRY III, 1039-1056, m. 1, Gunhilda, daughter of Cnut; 2, Agnes, daughter of William, Count of Poitiers. | + HENRY IV, 1056-1106, m. 1, Bertha, daughter of Otto, Marquis of Susa; | + HENRY V, 1106-1125, m. | Matilda, d. of Henry I of England. | + Agnes, m. 1, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Duke of Swabia, 1080-1105; | + Frederick the One-eyed, Duke of Swabia, d. 1147, m. 1, Judith, daughter of Henry the Black. | + FREDERICK I, Barbarossa, 1152-1190. | | | + HENRY VI, 1190-1197, m. | | Constance of Sicily, d. 1198. | | | | | + FREDERICK II, 1214-1250, m. | | 1, Constance, d. of | | Alfonso II of Aragon; | | | | | + CONRAD IV, 1250-1254, m. | | | Elizabeth, daughter of | | | Otto II of Bavaria. | | | | | | | + Conradin, d. 1268. | | | | | + Manfred, d. 1266. | | | | 2, Iolande de Brienne; | | | | 3, Isabella, d. of | | John of England. | | | + PHILIP, 1198-1208, m. | Irene, d. of Isaac II, | Angelus, Eastern Emperor. | | | + Beatrix, m. | OTTO IV, 1208-1214, | d. 1218. | + CONRAD III, 1137-1152.
Even Gunhilda, sister to the King of Denmark, who had married Earl Paling and had embraced Christianity, was, by the advice of Edric, Earl of Wilts, seized and condemned to death by Ethelred, after seeing her husband and children butchered before her face. This unhappy princess foretold, in the agonies of despair, that her murder would soon be avenged by the total ruin of the English nation.
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