![]() ![]() Aislinn’s mother Maida sinks into madness. She has her whipped, but Wulfgar’s loyal servant stops her. She reminds Wulfgar he is a bastard and treats Aislinn like a slave and whore. Then Bolgar arrives with Wulfgar’s shrewish sister Gwyneth. She falls in love with Wulfgar, but he won’t pledge love or marriage to her. Poor Aislinn loses gown after gown as she tries to maintain her dignity. The three men fight for Aislinn’s favor with plenty of description about lusts. He hates women because his Norman mother told her Saxon husband, Bolgar, that Wulfgar wasn’t his son but a Norman’s child. The first one-hundred pages is a battle of wills between Aislinn and Wulfgar who refuses to wed her and believes he can leave her and forget her when he grows tired of her. Her bethrothed Kerwick also wants her but is chained with the dogs. Ragnor is obsessed with Aislinn and vows to get her back. ![]() He takes Aislinn but refuses to rape her. His leader Sir Wulfgar arrives and is angry with Ragnor for killing the serfs he needs to work his claimed land of Darkenwald. ![]() ![]() Beautiful red-haired Aislinn is lady of Darkenwald, and Norman Ragnor kills her father and sacks the village with his knights. ![]()
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