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Updated: May 1, 2025
Then did they practise their unclean spells, and perform their dark incantations to destroy her; but their spells and incantations prevailed not, for the spirit of Woden protected Agitha. Now, there resided at that time in a dark cave, in the heugh which is called Spindleston, an enchantress of great power, named Elgiva the worker of wonders.
Queen Bethoc, the daughter of Gormack, knew that men said she was less beautiful than Agitha, the daughter of the king. When they walked by the clear fountains or the crystal brooks together, the fountains and the brooks whispered to her the words which men spoke "Agitha is the most lovely." Therefore did the queen hate Agitha with a great and deadly hatred.
Her head sank on her bosom like a fair flower weighed down with dew. Tears stood in the eyes of the warrior. "Weep not, daughter of heroes!" he said; "the tide of battle is in the hands of Woden. He will not turn it against a descendant of his race. I will return to thee in triumph. I will throw a crown at thy father's feet, and rush to the arms of Agitha.
The bards lifted up their voice; they styled her the fairest of women. "Fair is the wife of the king," replied an aged thane, "but fairer is Agitha, his daughter! Bethoc, the queen, is a bright star, but Agitha is the star of the morning fairest of the heavens!" Queen Bethoc heard the words of the aged thane, and she hated Agitha because of them.
Where the battle raged fiercest, there was his voice heard, there was his sword seen; war-horses and their riders fell before it it arrested the fury of the chariots of war. Bards recorded his deeds in immortal strains, and Agitha sang them in secret. Yet would not Ethelfrith listen to the prayer of his kinsman, but his anger was kindled against him.
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