The Worm Ouroboros (Fantasy Classic). E. R. Eddison

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       E. R. Eddison

      The Worm Ouroboros

      (Fantasy Classic)

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      Table of Contents

       The Induction

       The Castle of Lord Juss

       II The Wrastling for Demonland

       III The Red Foliot

       IV Conjuring in the Iron Tower

       V King Gorice’s Sending

       VI The Claws of Witchland

       VII Guests of the King in Carcë

       VIII The First Expedition to Impland

       IX Salapanta Hills

       X The Marchlands of the Moruna

       XI The Burg of Eshgrar Ogo

       XII Koshtra Pivrarcha

       XIII Koshtra Belorn

       XIV The Lake of Ravary

       XV Queen Prezmyra

       XVI The Lady Sriva’s Embassage

       XVII The King Flies His Haggard

       XVIII The Murther of Gallandus By Corsus

       XIX Thremnir’s Heugh

       XX King Corinius

       XXI The Parley Before Krothering

       XXII Aurwath and Switchwater

       XXIII The Weird Begun of Ishnain Nemartra

       XXIV A King in Krothering

       XXV Lord Gro and the Lady Mevrian

       XXVI The Battle of Krothering Side

       XXVII The Second Expedition to Impland

       XXVIII Zora Rach Nam Psarrion

       XXIX The Fleet at Muelva

       XXX Tidings of Melikaphkhaz

       XXXI The Demons Before Carcë

       XXXII The Latter End of All the Lords of Witchland

       XXXIII Queen Sophonisba in Galing

       Argument: with Dates

      To W. G. E. and to my friends K. H. and G. C. L. M. I dedicate this book

      It is neither allegory nor fable but a Story to be read for its own sake.

      The proper names I have tried to spell simply. The e in Carcë is long, like that in Phryne, the o in Krothering short and the accent on that syllable: Corund is accented on the first syllable, Prezmyra on the second, Brandoch Daha on the first and fourth, Gorice on the last syllable, rhyming with thrice: Corinius rhymes with Flaminius, Galing with sailing, La Fireez with desire ease: ch is always guttural, as in loch.

      E. R. E.

       9th January 1922

      * * * * *

      True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank,

       A ferlie he spied wi his ee;

       And there he saw a Lady bright

       Come riding down by the Eildon Tree.

      Her skirt was o the grass-green silk,

       Her mantle o the velvet fyne,

       At ilka tett of her horse’s mane

       Hung fifty siller bells and nine.

      True Thomas he pulld aff his cap,

       And louted low down on his knee:

       “Hail to thee, Mary, Queen of Heaven!

       For thy peer on earth could never be.”

      “O no, O no, Thomas,” she says,

       “That name does not belong to me;

       I’m but the Queen of fair Elfland,

       That am hither come to visit thee.

      “Harp and carp, Thomas,” she says

       “Harp and carp alang wi me.

       And if ye dare to kiss my lips,

       Sure of your bodie I will be.”

      “Betide me weal, betide me woe,

       That weird shall never daunton me.”

       Syne he has kissed her rosy lips,

       All underneath the Eildon Tree.