Word: aethelwold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn of Saxon history, with heroic ideals looming in twilit feudal minds. Aethelwold, the king's foster-brother, prepares to ride into the dawn for the king's bride-a flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such...
...daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother, Aethelwold (Edward Johnson), whose attitude toward ladies is thus described: "Should a wench but breathe upon him in the dark, he would bury himself till the smell of her were off him." Aethelwold rides off on his mission, to a lusty-spirited folk tune, sung by the chorus (and later, through...
Unexpectedly Eadgar comes to visit their worried household, where Aelfrida yearns for glamorous court life and Aethelwold's treachery burns constantly in his heart. Mr. Taylor's cellos breathe chromatic sights. The henchman is driven to reveal to his wife his perfidy: how he deprived the King of her beauty, her of a queen's throne. If she loves him, let her hurry to make herself appear ugly, bent, broken, scarred, withered, that the King may find his brother innocent of treason...
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