The Worm Ouroboros. Eric Rücker Eddison
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Eric Rücker Eddison
The Worm Ouroboros
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066403263
Table of Contents
II. The Wrastling for Demonland
IV. Conjuring in the Iron Tower
VII. Guests of the King in Carcë
VIII. The First Expedition to Impland
X. The Marchlands of the Moruna
XVI. The Lady Sriva's Embassage
XVII. The King Flies His Haggard
XVIII. The Murther of Gallandus by Corsus
XXI. The Parley Before Krothering
XXII. Aurwath and the Switchwater
XXIII. The Weird Begun of Ishnain Nemartra
XXV. Lord Gro and the Lady Mevrian
XXVI. The Battle of Krothering Side
XXVII. The Second Expedition to Impland
XXVIII. Zora Rach Nam Psarrion
XXXII. The Latter End of All the Lords of Witchland
XXXIII. Queen Sophonisba in Galing
Dedication
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
Thomas the Rhymer
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.