Short Sun Notes: New Love

Andrew Mason25 Nov 2013, 21:59as archived

Once again, a very happy Feast of Saint Katharine to you all! I realise that it's now a year since I started my Short Sun notes, and they are not progressing as fast as they should. I don't have time for anything large right now, but here is a small one. In OBW, a soothsayer visits Gaon and makes what at the time seems an unlikely set of predictions for the Rajan: “I would lead three towns not my own to victory, would be tried for my life, would return as a stranger to my sons” native place, find new love, and so on and so forth. Most of these are fulfilled; he does lead three towns not his own to victory, he is tried for his life, and he does return as a stranger to his sons' native place, at least if we take “him” to be Horn (and possibly also if we take him to be Pas). Clearly the soothsayer was more accurate than one might have thought. But in that case, what does “new love” refer to?

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes25 Nov 2013, 22:00as archived

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Seawrack. On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com

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Once again, a very happy Feast of Saint Katharine to you all! I realise that it's now a year since I started my Short Sun notes, and they are not progressing as fast as they should. I don't have time for anything large right now, but here is a small one. In OBW, a soothsayer visits Gaon and makes what at the time seems an unlikely set of predictions for the Rajan: “I would lead three towns not my own to victory, would be tried for my life, would return as a stranger to my sons” native place, find new love, and so on and so forth. Most of these are fulfilled; he does lead three towns not his own to victory, he is tried for his life, and he does return as a stranger to his sons' native place, at least if we take “him” to be Horn (and possibly also if we take him to be Pas). Clearly the soothsayer was more accurate than one might have thought. But in that case, what does “new love” refer to? _______________________________________________

Andrew Mason26 Nov 2013, 19:46as archived

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(Resending this in the hope that the correct title will make it more perspicuous)

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: Seawrack.

But he (Horn) met Seawrack long before the prophecy.