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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
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE VERSES
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
THE INDUCTION
THERE was a man named Lessingham dwelt in an old low house in Wasdale, set in a gray old garden where yew-trees flourished that had seen Vikings in Copeland in their seedling time. Lily and rose and larkspur bloomed in the borders, and begonias with blossoms big as saucers, red and white and pink and lemon-colour, in the beds before the porch. Climbing roses, honeysuckle, clematis, and the scarlet flame-flower scrambled up the walls. Thick woods were on every side without the garden, with a gap north-eastward opening on the desolate lake and the great fells beyond it: Gable rearing his crag-bound head against the s