Crossword-Solution: AELLA 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

And there was much dissension in that nation among themselves; they had deposed their king Osbert, and had admitted Aella, who had no natural claim.

Some tell how Ragnar Lodbrog, a great hero of these Northern tales, was seized by Aella, King of the Northumbrians, and was thrown into a dungeon full of serpents, and how, while he was dying of the bites of the serpents, he sang a wonderful death-song, telling of all his old fights, and calling on his sons to come and avenge him.

The structure of Rowley's verse is so unequivocally modern, that by substituting the present orthography for the past, and changing two or three of the old words, the fact must become obvious, even to those who are wholly unacquainted with the barbarisms of the "olden time." As a corroboration of this remark, the first verse of the song to Aella may be adduced.

The Rowley poems included two tragedies, _Aella_ and _Goddwyn_, two cantos of a long poem on the _Battle of Hastings_, and a number of ballads and minor pieces.

The great Bristol merchant was a mediaeval Maecenas, and at his house, "nempned the Red Lodge," were played interludes--"Aella," "Goddwyn," and "The Parliament of Sprites"--composed by Rowley, or by Rowley and Iscam collaborating.