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Updated: June 10, 2025
Rachel, eating without hunger, was remembering an actress in vaudeville making a preliminary curtain announcement to her "Moments from Great Plays" ... "Lady Godiva accordingly rode na-aked through the streets of Coventry, but, howevah, retained her vuhtue...." "Oh, but Charlie, you're not listening," explained Mary.
But Torfrida rose upon her knees, and calmly made a solemn vow, which, though canonically void without her husband's consent, would, she well knew, never be disputed by any there; and as for him, "He has lost me; and forever. Torfrida never gives herself away twice." "There's carnal pride in those words, my poor child," said Godiva. "Cruel!" said she, proudly.
You will let me, mother? I may call you mother, may I not?" And Torfrida fondled the old woman's thin hands, "For I do want so much something to love." "Love thy heavenly bridegroom, the only love worthy of woman!" said Godiva, as her tears fell fast on Torfrida's head. She gave a half-impatient toss. "That may come, in good time.
I am not aware of any other European tradition that will bear comparison with that of Godiva, but Liebrecht relates that he remembers in his youth, about the year 1820, in a German newspaper, a story according to which a countess frees her husband's subjects from a heavy punishment imposed by him.
Colney shall be confounded. Hereupon Victor hopped on to Fenellan's hint regarding the designs of Mrs. Burman. His Nataly might have to go through a short sharp term of scorching Godiva to the gossips. She would come out of it glorified. She would be reconciled with her family.
We venture to describe it as in substance a drama, with a plot imperfectly worked and with characters insufficiently chiselled and relieved. Its author began by presenting, and for many years continued to present, personal as well as natural pictures of individual attitude or movement; and, as in "Oenone" and "Godiva," he carried them to a very high pitch of perfection.
On the whole, then, there is ground for supposing that the legend and procession of Lady Godiva are survivals of a pagan belief and worship located at Coventry; that the legend was concerned with a being awful and mysterious as Dame Berchta, or Hertha herself; and that the incident of Peeping Tom was from the first, or at all events from an early date, part of the story.
Leofric and the other men searched the woods round, far and wide. The girl mounted her horse, and would go with them. Then they took a bloodhound, and he led them to Grimkel's hut. There they heard of Martin. The ghost must have been Torfrida. Then the hound brought them to the river. And they divined at once that she was gone to Crowland, to Godiva; but why, they could not guess.
The magical ointment Human prying punished by fairies, and by other supernatural beings Dame Berchta Hertha Lady Godiva Analogous stories in Europe In the East Religious ceremonies performed by women only Lady Godiva a pagan goddess. Before we quit the subject of fairy births, we have a few more stories to discuss.
And to Crowland, after three days, came Leofric, the renegade priest, who had been with Hereward in the greenwood, and with him the child. And so it came that when Hereward returned, as he had said, after three days, he found neither wife nor child, and to Crowland he too went, but came away even as he had gone. But with Torfrida he had no word, nor with Godiva, for both refused him audience.
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