Word: mording
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frankenstein). Horror-man Karloff is now introduced to one of Hollywood's most accomplished villains (Basil Rathbone) in the cellars of the Tower of London circa 1480. There, amidst moaning victims, clanking chains and chopping blocks, Villain Rathbone (the crookbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester) shows Monster Karloff (Mord, the club-footed constable of the Tower) how to satisfy an active homicidal mania by murdering the four candidates who are preventing Duke Richard from becoming King Richard III of England. By the time Mord and Richard have killed Henry VI, the Duke of Clarence, Edward V and his brother, they...
Best shot: Richard and Mord drowning the Duke of Clarence, Richard's brother, in a vast butt of malmsey-bibulous Clarence's favorite tipple-with beautifully bubblous sound effects...
...actions take place at or near their farmsteads situated within a few hours' ride of each other. Hrut and Hauskuld are brothers. Hauskuld's daughter, Hallgertha, "she with the thief's eyes" causes much of the trouble that follows. Hrut at his brother's suggestion marries Unna, daughter of Mord, a famous lawyer, but Hrut's mother lays a spell on him that thwarts his marital happiness...
Hallgertha after the death of two husbands marries Mord's nephew Gunnar, "best of fighters, most courteous of men, sturdy in everything, generous, firm in friendship." His brother Kolskegg was a good fellow and a resolute...
...steal from a neighbor, and when questioned by her husband replies it is not for men to concern themselves about the cooking. Gunnar strikes her and she says she'll not forget the blow. Gunnar is warned not to kill twice in the same lineage, but his cousin Mord treacherously causes him to kill the son of a father whom he has already killed. Gunnar is outlawed and refusing to leave Iceland is killed. His wife remembering the blow on the cheek refuses to help him. Kolskegg became captain of the warring guard at Constantinople...
| 1 |