bethwoodvilles:8th of June 1492 ~ Elizabeth Woodville dies at Bermondsey AbbeyThe river gleams like
bethwoodvilles:8th of June 1492 ~ Elizabeth Woodville dies at Bermondsey AbbeyThe river gleams like silver in the moonlight, and still I hear the sweet clear noise like plainsong, soaring into the vault of the sky like a choir in a church. For a moment only I am bewildered, then I recognise the sound, I remember the song. This is the noise that we heard when we were in sanctuary and my brothers disappeared from the Tower. My mother told me then that this is the song the women of our family hear when there is to be a death of one they love very dearly, one of the family. It is the banshee calling her child home, it is the goddess Melusina, the founder of our family, singing a lament for one of her children. As soon as I hear it, as soon as I understand it, I know that my mother, my beloved, beautiful, mischievous mother, is dead. -- source link
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