 | D. C. O. Adams - 1901 - 482 lehte
...one of his confidants. The King had commissioned " him to visit Elfthrida (daughter of Ordgar, Duke of Devonshire, "whose charms had so fascinated the...damsel for himself. Returning " to the King, he told a tale which made for his own purpose, that " she was a girl nothing out of the common track of beauty,... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - 1904 - 616 lehte
...and one of his confidants. The king had commissioned him to visit Elfthrida, daughter of Ordgar, duke of Devonshire, (whose charms had so fascinated the...his mission from her parents and procured the damsel f for himself. Returning to the king, he told a tale which made for his own purpose ; that she was... | |
 | 1906 - 478 lehte
...and one of his confidants ; him the King had commissioned to visit Elfrida, daughter of Ordgar, Duke of Devonshire (whose charms had so fascinated the...damsel for himself. Returning to the King, he told a tale which made for his own purpose, that she was a girl of vulgar and commonplace appearance, and... | |
 | D. H. Moutray Read - 1908 - 478 lehte
...have been in Elfrida's character. So to recall the tale. There dwelt in Devon an Earl with a daughter whose " charms had so fascinated the eyes of some persons that they commended her to the King," whereon Edgar despatched his Hampshire Ealdorman, Athelwold, to view the maiden on his behalf and bring... | |
 | Marius Kristensen, Axel Olrik, Gunnar Knudsen - 1922 - 880 lehte
...and one of his confidants. The king had commissioned him to visit Elfthrida, daughter of Ordgar, duke of Devonshire, (whose charms had so fascinated the...damsel for himself. Returning to the king, he told a tale which made for his own purpose; that she was a girl nothing out of the common track of beauty,... | |
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Hastening on his embassy, and finding everything consonant to general estimation, he concealed his mission from her parents and procured the damsel for himself. Returning to the king, he told a tale which made for his own purpose; that she was a girl... 
