The Water of the Wondrous Isles - William Morris (book club suggestions .txt) 📗

The Water of the Wondrous Isles

By William Morris.

Table of Contents Titlepage Imprint The First Part: Of the House of Captivity I: Catch at Utterhay II: Now Shall Be Told of the House by the Waterside III: Of Skin-Changing IV: Of the Waxing of the Stolen Child V: Of Birdalone, and How She Is Grown Into Maidenhood VI: Herein Is Told of Birdalone’s Raiment VII: Birdalone Hath an Adventure in the Wood VIII: Of Birdalone and the Witch-Wife IX: Of Birdalone’s Swimming X: Birdalone Comes on New Tidings XI: Of Birdalone’s Guilt and the Chastisement Thereof XII: The Words of the Witch-Wife to Birdalone XIII: Birdalone Meeteth the Wood-Woman Again XIV: Of Birdalone’s Fishing XV: Birdalone Weareth Her Serpent-Ring XVI: Birdalone Meeteth Habundia Again; and Learneth Her First Wisdom of Her XVII: The Passing of the Year Into Winter XVIII: Of Spring-Tide and the Mind of Birdalone XIX: They Bid Farewell, Birdalone and the Wood-Mother XX: Of Birdalone and the Sending Boat The Second Part: Of the Wondrous Isles I: The First Isle II: Birdalone Falleth in with New Friends III: Birdalone Is Brought Before the Witch-Wife’s Sister IV: Of the Witch’s Prison in the Wailing-Tower V: They Feast in the Witch’s Prison VI: Atra Tells of How They Three Came Unto the Isle of Increase Unsought VII: The Three Damsels Take Birdalone Out of the Witch’s Prison VIII: In What Wise Birdalone Was Clad, and How She Went Her Ways from the Isle of Increase Unsought IX: How Birdalone Came to the Isle of the Young and the Old X: Birdalone Comes to the Isle of the Queens XI: And Now She Comes to the Isle of the Kings XII: Of Birdalone, How She Came Unto the Isle of Nothing The Third Part: Of the Castle of the Quest I: Birdalone Comes to the Castle of the Quest II: Of Birdalone, and How She Rested the Night Through in a Bower Without the Castle of the Quest III: How Birdalone Dight Her for Meeting the Champions of the Quest IV: And Now She Meets the Champions V: Birdalone Has True Tokens from the Champions of the Quest VI: How the Champions Would Do Birdalone to Be Clad Anew in the Castle of the Quest VII: Of Birdalone, How She Told the Champions All Her Tale VIII: In the Meanwhile of the Departing of the Champions, They Would Pleasure Birdalone with Feats of Arms and Games of Prowess IX: Birdalone Cometh Before the Champions in Her New Array X: The Champions Go Their Ways in the Sending Boat The Fourth Part: Of the Days of Abiding I: Of Birdalone’s Grief; and of Leonard the Chaplain II: Birdalone Learneth Lore of the Priest. Ten Days of Waiting Wear III: Now Would Birdalone Ride Abroad IV: Of Birdalone’s Faring Abroad V: Sir Aymeris Showeth Birdalone the Mountains Afar Off VI: Birdalone Heareth Tell Tales of the Black Valley of the Greywethers VII: Birdalone Beguileth the Priest to Help Her to Outgoing VIII: Birdalone Fares on Her Adventure IX: Birdalone Comes to the Black Valley X: How Birdalone Fell in with a Man in the Black Valley of the Greywethers XI: Birdalone Is Led Up the Black Valley XII: How Those Twain Get Them from Out of the Black Valley of the Greywethers XIII: Now They Rest for the Night in the Strait Pass XIV: The Black Knight Tells the Truth of Himself XV: The Black Knight Brings Birdalone to the Bower in the Dale XVI: Yet a Day and a Night They Tarry in the Dale The Fifth Part: The Tale of the Quest’s Ending I: Of Sir Leonard’s Trouble and the Coming of the Quest II: Now Ask They of Birdalone, and Sir Leonard Speaks III: How They Follow the Slot of Birdalone and the Black Knight IV: Of the Slaying of Friend and Foe V: They Come Home to the Castle of the Quest VI: Of the Talk Betwixt Birdalone and Viridis VII: Birdalone Telleth the Tale of Her Wandering Up the Valley of the Greywethers VIII: Atra and Birdalone Talk Together While the Lords Sit at the Murder-Council IX: Hugh Tells the Story of the Quest’s Ending X: How It Fared with the Three Ladies After the Escape of Birdalone XI: Birdalone and the Black Squire Talk Together in the Hall of the Castle XII: The Knights and Their Fellows Betake Them to the Assaulting of the Red Hold XIII: Birdalone Bethinks Her to Fulfil the Promise Made Unto Atra XIV: Birdalone Leaves the Castle of the Quest The Sixth Part: The Days of Absence I: Birdalone Rides to Greenford and There Takes Leave of Arnold and His Men II: Of Birdalone and Her Fellowship, Their Faring Over the Downland III: They Come to the City of the Five Crafts, and Birdalone Meets with the Poor-Wife IV: Of the Love of Gerard’s Sons and of Jacobus for Birdalone V: Of the Death of Audrey, Mother to Birdalone. She Is Warned in a Dream to Seek the Black Squire, and Is Minded to Depart the City of the Five Crafts, and Seek Again the Castle of the Quest VI: Of the Sundering of Birdalone from Gerard and His Sons VII: Birdalone Cometh to Greenford, and Hears of the Wasting of the Castle of the Quest VIII: Birdalone Cometh to the Castle of the Quest, Heareth the Tale Thereof from Leonard, and Departeth Thence by the Sending Boat IX: Birdalone