Lord Dunsany

The King of Elfland's Daughter (Fantasy Novel)


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       Lord Dunsany

      The King of Elfland's Daughter

      (Fantasy Novel)

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      2019 OK Publishing

      EAN 4057664559418

      Table of Contents

       Preface

       CHAPTER I The Plan of the Parliament of Erl

       CHAPTER II Alveric Comes in Sight of the Elfin Mountains

       CHAPTER III The Magical Sword Meets Some of the Swords of Elfland

       CHAPTER IV Alveric Comes Back to Earth After Many Years

       CHAPTER V The Wisdom of the Parliament of Erl

       CHAPTER VI The Rune of the Elf King

       CHAPTER VII The Coming of the Troll

       CHAPTER VIII The Arrival of the Rune

       CHAPTER IX Lirazel Blows Away

       CHAPTER X The Ebbing of Elfland

       CHAPTER XI The Deep of the Woods

       CHAPTER XII The Unenchanted Plain

       CHAPTER XIII The Reticence of the Leather-Worker

       CHAPTER XIV The Quest for the Elfin Mountains

       CHAPTER XV The Retreat of the Elf King

       CHAPTER XVI Orion Hunts the Stag

       CHAPTER XVII The Unicorn Comes in the Starlight

       CHAPTER XVIII The Grey Tent in the Evening

       CHAPTER XIX Twelve Old Men Without Magic

       CHAPTER XX A Historical Fact

       CHAPTER XXI On the Verge of Earth

       CHAPTER XXII Orion Appoints a Whip

       CHAPTER XXIII Lurulu Watches the Restlessness of Earth

       CHAPTER XXIV Lurulu Speaks of Earth and the Ways of Men

       CHAPTER XXV Lirazel Remembers the Fields We Know

       CHAPTER XXVI The Horn of Alveric

       CHAPTER XXVII The Return of Lurulu

       CHAPTER XXVIII A Chapter on Unicorn-Hunting

       CHAPTER XXIX The Luring of the People of the Marshes

       CHAPTER XXX The Coming of Too Much Magic

       CHAPTER XXXI The Cursing of Elfin Things

       CHAPTER XXXII Lirazel Yearns for Earth

       CHAPTER XXXIII The Shining Line

       CHAPTER XXXIV The Last Great Rune

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      I hope that no suggestion of any strange land that may be conveyed by the title will scare readers away from this book; for, though some chapters do indeed tell of Elfland, in the greater part of them there is no more to be shown than the face of the fields we know, and ordinary English woods and a common village and valley, a good twenty or twenty-five miles from the border of Elfland.

      Lord Dunsany

      CHAPTER I

       The Plan of the Parliament of Erl

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      In their ruddy jackets of leather that reached to their knees the men of Erl appeared before their lord, the stately white-haired man in his long red room. He leaned in his carven chair and heard their spokesman.

      And thus their spokesman said.

      "For seven hundred years the chiefs of your race have ruled us well; and their deeds are remembered by the minor minstrels, living on yet in their little tinkling songs. And yet the generations stream away, and there is no new thing."

      "What would you?" said the lord.

      "We would be ruled by a magic lord," they said.

      "So be it," said the lord. "It is five hundred years since my people have spoken thus in parliament, and it shall always be as your parliament saith. You have spoken. So be it."

      And he raised his hand and blessed them and they went.

      They went back to their ancient crafts, to the fitting