It was here that Edward, the dupe of the wily Dunstan, was murdered in the year 979, at the instigation of Elfrida, the widow of Edgar, and Edward's mother-in-law, who wished to have her own son, poor "ethelred the Unready," upon the throne.
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston
For St Edward was at heart a Norman, and Winchester, beside summing up in itself all the splendour of pre-Norman England, had been given by ethelred to the widow of Canute, Emma, the mother of St Edward.
"England of My Heart--Spring"
Edward Hutton
I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain for peaceable admission into the dwelling of the hermit, proceeds to make good an entrance by force.
"Selections From Poe"
J. Montgomery Gambrill
