Word: mauger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next, and most lasting, torment is Aide, the wife of Mauger of Fervacques. They fall in love at the court of William the Conqueror, and Fulcun is plunged once more into Hamlet-like indecision...
...three chances to kill Mauger-once in battle and twice in duels-but fumbles each opportunity. He kidnaps Aide but soon infects her with his own goading conscience, and. out of pity and a conviction of sin, she returns to her battered husband. Fulcun carries his passion about like a plague and involves all his kinsmen in his ruin...