Brewer's: Fordelis

(in Orlando Furioso). Wife of Brandimart, Orlando's intimate friend. When Brandimart was slain, she dwelt for a time in his mausoleum in Sicily, and died broken-hearted. (Book xii.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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