half-bereaved

Updated: January 8, 2026

So Father Cuthbert and the Benedictines started back to Aescendune without Alfred, bearing Dunstan's explanation of the matter to the half-bereaved father whose faith, they feared, would be sorely tried, and leaving Oswy to be his companion.

A. D. (Augustine David) Crake - Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune : A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan