Major new Wolfe story online

Matthew Davis · 07 May 2002, 21:00 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Matthew Davis" <matthew at michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:00:51 +0100
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From: "Adam Stephanides" <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online


> So Wolfe is a Kai Lung fan.  I had no idea.
>
> I've seen the "princess on a glass mountain" motif twice before: in a
novel
> called THE GLASS MOUNTAIN by Leonard Wolf, which I haven't read, and in a
> Fractured Fairy Tale (in which the rescuer was a giant frog).  Given this,
> I'd expect that it occurs in some genuine fairy tale or medieval romance,
> but nothing comes to mind.

The "princess and the glass hill" by andrew lang
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=3DLanBlue.sgm&images=3D=
image
s/modeng&data=3D/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=3Dpublic&part=3D33&divisio=
n=3Ddiv1

which I found by this nifty index to Lang's fairy tales
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~emily/Docs/lang.html#p

But does the title allude to anything? One of the hobbits went under the
false name "Mr Underhill" but nothing else leaps to mind.


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