Gene Wolfe - The Knight
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The Knight
Gene Wolfe
Dedicated with the greatest respect to Yves Meynard, author of The Book Of Knights
The Riders
Who treads those level lands of gold,
The level fields of mist and air,
And rolling mountains manifold
And towers of twilight over there?
No mortal foot upon them strays,
No archer in the towers dwells,
But feet too airy for our ways
Go up and down their hills and dells.
The people out of old romance,
And people that have never been,
And those that on the border dance
Between old history and between
Resounding fable, as the king
Who held his court at Camelot.
There Guinevere is wandering
And there the knight Sir Lancelot.
And by yon precipice of white,
As steep as Roncesvalles, and more,
Within an inch of fancys sight,
Roland the peerless rides to war.
And just the tip of Quixotes spear,
The greatest of them all by far,
Is surely visible from here!
But no: it is the Evening Star.
Lord Dunsany
Ben, look at this first.
I have been reading through the first part of this letter, and there are an awful lot of names you will not know. So I have listed most of them here. If you come across one and wonder who that is, or where it is, you can look here. You would be wasting your time to read this now. It is just to look the names up in.
If a name is not here, I missed it or I do not know either, or I knew you would know already. Here they are.
| ABLE | This is the name I use here. It was also the name of Bold Bertholds brother. |
| AELF | Fifth-world people. They do not work much, protect trees and so forth, and see certain things differently. |
| AELFRICE | The fifth world, under Mythgarthr. |
| AGR | He was Marders marshal, and I have known worse people. |
| ALVIT | One of the shield-maidens who ride for the Valfather. |
| ANGRBORN | The giants who got forced out of Skai. All of them are descended from a famous giantess named Angr, or say they are. |
| ARNTHOR | The king of Celidon. His picture was on the money. Disiri gave me a message for him. |
| ATL | One of Thunrolfs servants. |
| AUD | Thunrolfs steward. |
| BAKI | A Fire Aelf girl I met at the Tower of Glas. She and Uri said they were my slaves. |
| BALDIG | One of the peasants who used to live in Griffinsford. |
| BATTLEMAID | Ravds sword. Swords get names, like ships. |
| BATTLEWITCH | Garvaons sword. |
| BEAW | One of Garvaons men-at-arms. He was a good guy too. |
| BEEL | The baron Arnthor sent to Jotunland. |
| BEN | My brother back in America, who I still miss. Did you read this, Ben? |
| BLACKMANE | Ravds charger. |
| BLUESTONE CASTLE | Indigns castle. Some Osterling pirates wrecked it. |
| BLUESTONE ISLAND | A high, rocky island about a quarter of a mile from the mainland. |
| BODACHAN BOLD | Earth Aelf. They are one of the small clans. |
| BERTHOLD | The peasant from Griffinsford who let me cook my grouse and live with him in his hut. We said we were brothers, and he believed it. |
| BREGA | A peasant woman who lived in Glennidam. |
| BYMIR | The first Angrborn I ever saw. |
| CASPAR | The head warder at Sheerwall Castle. |
| CELIDON | A big country, longer than it is wide, on the west coast of the mainland. Irringsmouth, Forcetti, and Kingsdoom are all towns in Celidon. |
| COLLINS | My old English teacher. |
| CROL | Beels herald. |
| DISIRA | Seaxneats wife. |
| DISIRI | The queen of the Moss Aelf. |
| DOLLOP AND SCALLOP | The inn where we stayed in Forcetti. |
| DUNS | Uns older brother. |
| EAST HALL | Woddets manor. |
| EGIL | One of the outlaws. |
| EGR | One of Beels upper servants. |
| ETERNE | The Mother of Swords. |
| FINEFIELD | Garvaons manor. |
| FIRE AELF | The clan Setr took over completely. |
| FORCETTI | Marders town, a seaport. |
| FREE COMPANIES | Outlaw gangs. This was the polite name. |
| FROST GIANTS | The Angrborn, especially the raiders. |
| GARSECG | The name Setr was using when I met him. |
| GARVAON | Beels best knight. |
| GAYNOR | Arnthors wife, the queen of Celidon. |
| GERDA | The girl Bold Berthold was going to marry. |
| GERI | The girl you were dating when I lost America. |
| GILLING | The king of the Angrborn. |
| GLENNIDAM | The village where Ulfa and Toug were born. |
| GORN | The innkeeper at the Dollop and Scallop. |
| GRENGARM | The dragon who had Eterne. |
| GRIFFIN | The little river running past Griffmsford and into the Irring. |
| GRIFFINSFORD | A village the Angrborn wiped out. |
| GYLF | My dog. The Valfather lost him, and I got to keep him until the Valfather wanted him back. |
| HEIMIE | Gerdas son by Hymir. It made him a Mouse. |
| HEI | The Overcyn woman in charge of death. |
| HELA | Gerdas daughter by Hymir, Heimirs sister. |
| HERMAD | One of Marders knights. |
| HOB | One of Caspars warders. |
| HOEDSVIN | The cook on the Western Trader. |
| HULTA | A woman in Glennidam. |
| HYMIR | The Angrborn who got Gerda. |
| HYNDLE | Hymirs Angrborn son. |
| IDNN | Beels daughter, pretty small and next to beautiful. Her voice and big dark eyes were what you remembered. |
| INDIGN | A duke Osterlings killed. Bluestone Castle was his. |
| IRRING | A big river. |
| IRRINGSMOUTH | Indigns town, where the Irring empties into the sea. Osterlings had burned a lot of it. |
| JER | The head of an outlaw gang. |
| JOTUNLAND |
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