When Does Gisela Die?
In "The Burning Land", While Celebrating the Saxon Victory at Farnham, Uhtred Is Devastated by News That His Beloved Wife, Gisela, Has Died in Childbirth...
In "The Burning Land", while celebrating the Saxon victory at Farnham, Uhtred is devastated by news that his beloved wife, Gisela, has died in childbirth, along with the child she bore.
How does Gisela die?
Sadly Gisela died in childbirth along with the child she had attempted to deliver, and Uhtred was heartbroken as she was the first woman he had truly loved. Hild (Eva Birthistle) and Thyra had helped her through her labor, and the former had the heartbreaking job of telling Uhtred she did not survive.
Who killed Gisela?
Things worsened when, after Uhtred's wife Gisela died in childbirth, Uhtred desecrated her grave and burned her body on a Pagan pyre, offending Alfred's faith. Finally, when Christian monk Brother Godwin insulted Gisela's memory, Uhtred retaliated and accidentally killed him – a further insult to Alfred's Christianity.
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