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"I did not owe the allegiance of an Englishman to either, being of foreign birth, and so was no traitor; as for the Witan, it is well known Dunstan influenced their decision at the death of the royal Edmund." "I never heard the assertion before." "You have many things still to learn; you are but young as yet. But let it pass. Does not his conduct to Queen Elgiva merit death!" "I think it does.
During the full din of their heated applause, when all eyes were fixed upon the accomplished musician, Edwy rose softly from his chair; a door was just behind him, and he took advantage of it to leave the hail and thread the passages quickly, till he came to the room where he had left Elgiva, when he threw aside his royal mantle and all his restraint at the same time.
Separated by their foes from the rest of mankind, they returned to that state of barbarism from which they had emerged, and became a scandal at last to the growing civilisation of their English foes. xxv Seaton in Devonshire. xxvi Elgiva or Aelgifu, signifies fairy gift. Xxvii
In their place were the young and giddy, the headstrong sons of wiser fathers, the spendthrifts, the young fops of the period, those who went in for a fast life, to use a modern phrase who spent the night, if not the day, over the wine cup, and consumed their substance in riotous living such were they who gathered around Edwy the Fair and the yet fairer Elgiva.
One evening, when a banquet was given him in honor of his coronation, the king excused himself when the speeches got rather corky, and went into the sitting-room to have a chat with his wife, Elgiva, of whom he was very fond, and her mother. St. Dunstan, who had still to make a speech on Foreign Missions with a yard or so of statistics, insisted on Edwy's return. An open outbreak was the result.
The gleemen rose and sang, the harpers harped, but something was wanting; they brought tears to the eyes of the fair queen by their plaintive songs of hapless lovers, which had superseded alike the war songs of Athelstane and the monkish odes of Edred. "Where is Elfric? He promised to be back by our wedding day; why does he delay, my Edwy?" asked Elgiva.
Those who sheltered them incurred a heavy "were gild," and endangered the loss of their estates; and finally, in case of obstinacy, outlawry and banishment followed. King Canute's Laws Ecclesiastical. xxxii Disappearance of Elgiva. The writer has already in the preface stated his reasons for rejecting the usual sad story about the fate of the hapless Elgiva.
Who is laughing? it is not Dunstan; break his chamber open, slay him: is a monk's blood redder than a peasant's? O Elgiva hast thou slain my father? See, I am all on fire; it is thy doing. Edwy, my king, Dunstan is burning me: save me!" Then there was a long pause, and Redwald or Ragnar as we may now call him stood over his unhappy cousin.
His head fell helplessly down upon his shoulder, and ere the king could make any reply, he saw that he was indeed past hope. But his dying words had sunk deeply into the heart of Edwy. "Poor Elfgar! he was right. O Elgiva! Elgiva! this is a sad day for thee." "Return then to her, my lord," said Cynewulf.
The ordinary dishes being now removed, the guests all partook lavishly of wine, and, their heads already heated, yielded entirely to the excitement of the moment. Toast after toast was drunk to the king: he was compared to Apollo for his beauty, and Elgiva to Venus, while the old northern mythology was ransacked also for appellations in honour of the youthful pair.
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