CHAPTER 14
Return to TrinovantumFor several years Bladud continued to enjoy a peaceful life in Greece, loved by his wife, honoured for his victories at Delphi and Olympia, respected by Lysander and his people.
The only thing that threatened to spoil his contentment was that Alcestis conceived no child.
While discussing this one day, Bladud suggested she should visit the Temple of Demeter and enlist the help of the great earth goddess whose power pulled the mighty trees from dry and dusty seeds, who clothed the barren earth with flowers and grass, and who poured her strength into the corn.
Alcestis agreed, but suggested that he, at the same time, should supplicate for his own fertility. It was at this point he let slip that he knew he must be fertile because he already had a son. The st
