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Nothing but her death could now give security to Odo and the monks; and the most cruel death was requisite to satiate their vengeance. Osberne, p. 83, 105. Alur. The English, blinded with superstition, instead of being shocked with this inhumanity, exclaimed that the misfortunes of Edwy and his consort were a just judgment for their dissolute contempt of the ecclesiastical statutes.
In one synod, Dunstan, finding the majority of votes against him, rose up and informed the audience, that he had that instant received an immediate revelation in behalf of the monks: the assembly was so astonished at this intelligence, or probably so overawed by the populace, that they proceeded no farther in their deliberations. Osberne, p. 112. Gervase, p. 1647. Brompton, p. 870. Sax. p. 124.
The only difference is, that Osberne and some others call her his strumpet, not his wife, as she is said to be by Malmesbury.
A little after, the Danish troops landed from three hundred vessels; Osberne, brother to King Sweyn, was intrusted with the command of these forces, and he was accompanied by Harold and Canute, two sons of that monarch.
Yet those very monks who, as we are told by Ingulf, a very ancient historian, had no idea of any moral or religious merit, except chastity and obedience, not only connived at his enormities, but loaded him with the greatest praises. History, however, has preserved some instances of his amours, from which, as from a specimen, we may form a conjecture of the rest. Osberne, p. 3. Diceto p. 457.
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