adolorous

Updated: May 16, 2025

He had killed his enemy, and that enemy was Morold, Isolde's betrothed. The princess, ignorant of that fact, ignorant, too, of his name, for he had called himself Tantris, had herself nursed him back almost to health, when one day she found that a splinter of steel, taken from the head of Morold, where he had received the adolorous stroke, fitted into a nick in the sword of the wounded knight.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music