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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
Thrytho bore pride, cruel malice, the dangerous folk-queen. Neither
was any found of loved companions bold enough to look upon her, nor
might another than her wedded lord gaze with too curious eyes by
day upon her beauty. For she imposed the death-bond. She fashioned
with her hand for such the fetter. Then after the binding was the
sword appointed; the blade that sharply shears, the deadly weapon
making known the death-woe. No woman's deed is this though she be
beautiful That for fierce anger or pretended insult she should
seek, she being called Peaceweaver, to do a friend to death. Tram,
chapter{Section 4Where is the horseman? Where is the rider? Where
is gone the Giver of Treasure ? Places of feasting, friends and
pleasures? Alas for wine bowl sparkling Alas for burnied warrior
Woe for pride of princes Lo how Time departeth, Shrouded in the
night shades as she had been never Trans. chapter{Section 5DRAMATIS
PERSON/E. Offa King of Mercia Hbothoar Brother-in-Law of Offa
Egfrith Offa's Son /ethelbert ... King of Anglia (disguised as a
Scop) elfric ... ... ... ... ... ... An Earl Alcuin ... ... ... ...
... A Prelate Bvrhtnoth ... ... ... ... A Young Earl A Clerk
Thrytho ... ... ... A Worshipper of Woden Elfrida ... Daughter of
Offa and betrothed to yEthelbert Hrosfrith ... ... ... ...
Elfrida's Attendant The Three Norns. Earls?Warriors?Ambassadors of
Charlemagne? Attendants on Elfrida and Thrytho. PROLOGUE.
chapter{Section 6THRYTHO. PROLOGUE. A towering 7iiass of cloud,
grey, lowering, illuminated from time to time by the lurid light of
storm. Far below, a rugged coast line, dimly discerned, the sea
breaking white against the cliffs. In the cloud three gigantic
figures, themselves cloud...
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