Excerpt from Love Letters of a Norman Princess It would seem that the fragmentary letters were composed with no other motive than the slight alleviation that comes from translating into words the heart's heaviness. The first few very faintly hint that the princess hoped her beloved was a prisoner in some donjon from which he would find means of escape. But, judging again from the letters, there gradually grew in her heart the conviction that Elric was dead. She, too, could die; but never could shebecome the bride of another. Perhaps she hoped that after she had fared forth in virgin sanctity to find her lover, if that lover still lived, her stony guardian might so far soften as to send him the pitiful proof of her deathless love. Princess Hersilie utterly disappeared on the eve of her marriage to the Norman baron. The superlatively romantic affirm that Elric returned in time to claim his bride. Others are of opin ion that the Saxon was dead, and that his high hearted fiancee preferred death to disloyalty. But those more familiar with the social customs of that lawless age believe the young princess planned to entrust herself to the sisters of Saint Lucine; and that in the night journey across the bay to the Abbey, her boat was capsized. Such, in brief, is the story of this obscure and ill-starred young princess as I have heard (or. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.