| Seomel was slain while valorously warding off blows from the atheling. |
| Mrs. atheling had heard their approach, and she was at the open door to meet them. |
| Atheling, I love your point about the whole cycle revolving around the failure of fathers to live up to their sons. |
| Her father, Edward Atheling,was a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon kings of England, closely related to the Confessor, the last of that line. |
| The doughty atheling to high-seat hastened and Hrothgar greeted. |
| It suited Piers and me to sit idle and say a word or two about atheling. |
