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Gesta regum anglorum has a late account of Æthelwold's marriage and death. According to William, the beauty of Ordgar's daughter Ælfthryth was reported to King Edgar. Edgar, looking for a Queen, sent Æthelwold to see Ælfthryth, ordering him "to offer her marriage [to Edgar] if her beauty were really equal to report." When she turned out to be just as beautiful as was said, Æthelwold married her himself and reported back to Edgar that she was quite unsuitable. Edgar was eventually told of this

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