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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Oswy, you have given your life for us; we die in company. God protect my poor mother, my poor childless mother! She will be alone!" "You shall die together as you desire." He addressed a few words in an unknown tongue to his men; his face was now pale as death, his lips compressed as of one who has taken a desperate resolution. "Retire to your brother's chamber again.
It has been over twelve hundred years since a religious house was founded at Whitby, at first known as the White Homestead, an outgrowth of the abbey, which was founded by Oswy and presided over by the sainted Hilda, who chose the spot upon the lonely crags by the sea. The fame of Whitby as a place of learning soon spread, and here lived the cowherd Cædmon, the first English poet.
There was but one mode of crossing it: a bridge constructed of planks was thrown over, which one horseman might pass at a time. The whole party rode over in safety, although the crazy old bridge bent terribly beneath the weight of each rider. But when all were over, the guide motioned to Alfred and Oswy to remain behind for one moment, while the monks proceeded.
"Take and wrap these clothes round him; we must preserve him from the night air;" and they wrapped the blankets around him; then Oswy, who was very strongly built, took the light frame of Elfric in his arms, and they left the room. One moment of dread suspense the passage was clear a minute more would have placed them in safety, when the paroxysm returned upon the unfortunate Elfric. "Help, Edwy!
The disturbed state of his kingdom and the importance of an alliance with so powerful a house as that of Oswy are believed to have influenced Ethelwold to urge his niece to give her consent to the proposed marriage; and the marriage took place at York. It is constantly affirmed by all historians that in neither of these marriages did the married couple live together as man and wife.
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