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Fly! ere the wand of the worker of wonders is uplifted, and destruction come upon thee." The followers of Bethoc quaked with dismay. They turned with her and fled to the tower of Ida. Of their outgoing and their incoming none knew. The maidens of Bernicia wept when the loss of Agitha was known. "Beauty," said they, "hath perished.
He brought it as the price of Agitha's hand. It was morn. The sun rose with his robes of glory over the sea. Bethoc, the daughter of Gormack the weird, stood upon the turrets of Ida's tower. She was performing incantations to the four winds of heaven. She called upon them to lift up the sea on their invisible wings, to raise its waves as mountains, and whelm the ships upon its bosom.
Terror had entranced the soul of the fair Agitha it had brought a sleep over her senses. The enchantress grasped her hand. She threw her arm around her. "Away, accursed!" she exclaimed unto Bethoc the queen; "fly! lest the power of the enchantment fall upon thee also. Fly! lest it overtake thee as darkness overtaketh the benighted traveller.
He had no son; but he had three available daughters, of whom the eldest was Bethoc, and the two others are said to have been called Donada or Doada and Plantula. Bethoc he married to the most powerful Pictish leader of the time, Crinan, Abthane of Dunkeld, the capital of the southern Picts, and they had issue
But the winds obeyed not her voice, and the sea was still. In the bay of Budle lay the vessels of the Chylde Wynde, and the weapons of his warriors flashed in the sunbeams and upon the sea. Therefore was the spirit of Queen Bethoc troubled. It was troubled lest the enchantment should be broken Agitha delivered from the spell, and her wrongs avenged.
By a lawful wife Hakon had another son, Paul the Silent, and it seems certain that Paul was not by the same mother as Margret or Harald Slettmali, and that Paul's mother was not of Moddan's family. Moddan, Earl of Caithness, was killed in 1040. His mother, daughter of Bethoc, must have been born after 1002.
Whatsoever was lovely that she looked upon in envy, withered as though an east wind passed over it the destroying wind which blighteth the hopes of the husbandman. At the going down of the sun, the king, and his fair queen, Bethoc, with his mighty men, drew near to the tower which Ida had built on the mountain-rock, and all the people of the city came forth to meet him, and to greet their queen.