Major new Wolfe story online

Andy Robertson · 07 May 2002, 20:20 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 21:20:54 +0100
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Traditionally the fairies, the Sidhe, the "little people", live "Under the
hill".   This derives from a confusion of old Celtic burial mounds.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Davis" <matthew at michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <urth at urth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Stephanides" <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
> To: <urth at urth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:17 PM
> 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
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s/modeng&data=3D/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=3Dpublic&part=3D33&divisio=
n=3Ddiv1
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> 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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