The Water of the Wondrous Isles - Table of Contents
THE FIRST PART: OF THE HOUSE OF CAPTIVITY
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Catch at Utterhay
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Now Shall Be Told of the House by the Water-Side
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Of Skin-Changing
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Of the Waxing of the Stolen Child
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Of Birdalone, and How She is Grown Into Maidenhood
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Herein is Told of Birdalone’s Raiment
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Birdalone Hath an Adventure in the Wood
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Of Birdalone and the Witch-Wife
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Of Birdalone’s Swimming
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Birdalone Comes On New Tidings
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Of Birdalone’s Guilt and the Chastisement Thereof
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The Words of the Witch-Wife to Birdalone
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Birdalone Meeteth the Wood-Woman Again
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Of Birdalone’s Fishing
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Birdalone Weareth Her Serpent-Ring
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Birdalone Meeteth Habundia Again; and Learneth Her First Wisdom of Her
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The Passing of the Year Into Winter
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Of Spring-Tide and the Mind of Birdalone
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They Bid Farewell, Birdalone and the Wood-Mother
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Of Birdalone and the Sending Boat
THE SECOND PART: OF THE WONDROUS ISLES
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The First Isle
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Birdalone Falleth in with New Friends
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Birdalone is Brought Before the Witch-Wife’s Sister
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Of the Witch’s Prison in the Wailing-Tower
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They Feast in the Witch’s Prison
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Atra Tells of How They Three Came Unto the Isle of Increase Unsought
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The Three Damsels Take Birdalone Out of the Witch’s Prison
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In What Wise Birdalone Was Clad, and How She Went Her Ways from the Isle of Increase Unsought
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How Birdalone Came to the Isle of the Young and the Old
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Birdalone Comes to the Isle of the Queens
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And Now She Comes to the Isle of the Kings
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Of Birdalone, How She Came Unto the Isle of Nothing
THE THIRD PART: OF THE CASTLE OF THE QUEST
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Birdalone Comes to the Castle of the Quest
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Of Birdalone, and How She Rested the Night Through in A Bower Without the Castle of the Quest
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How Birdalone Dight Her for Meeting the Champions of the Quest
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And Now She Meets the Champions
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Birdalone Has True Tokens from the Champions of the Quest
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How the Champions Would Do Birdalone to Be Clad Anew in the Castle of the Quest
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Of Birdalone, How She Told the Champions All Her Tale
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In the Meanwhile of the Departing of the Champions, They Would Pleasure Birdalone with Feats of Arms and Games of Prowess
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Birdalone Cometh Before the Champions in Her New Array
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The Champions Go Their Ways in the Sending Boat
THE FOURTH PART: OF THE DAY OF THE ABIDING
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Of Birdalone’s Grief; and of Leonard the Chaplain
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Birdalone Learneth Lore of the Priest. Ten Days of Waiting Wear
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Now Would Birdalone Ride Abroad
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Of Birdalone’s Faring Abroad
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Sir Aymeris Showeth Birdalone the Mountains Afar Off
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Birdalone Heareth Tell Tales of the Black Valley of the Greywethers
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Birdalone Beguileth the Priest to Help Her to Outgoing
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Birdalone Fares On Her Adventure
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Birdalone Comes to the Black Valley
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How Birdalone Fell in with A Man in the Black Valley of the Greywethers
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Birdalone is Led Up the Black Valley
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How Those Twain Get Them from Out of the Black Valley of the Greywethers
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Now They Rest for the Night in the Strait Pass
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The Black Knight Tells the Truth of Himself
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The Black Knight Brings Birdalone to the Bower in the Dale
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Yet A Day and A Night They Tarry in the Dale
THE FIFTH PART: THE TALE OF THE QUEST'S ENDING
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Of Sir Leonard’s Trouble and the Coming of the Quest
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Now Ask They of Birdalone, and Sir Leonard Speaks
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How They Follow the Slot of Birdalone and the Black Knight
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Of the Slaying of Friend and Foe
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They Come Home to the Castle of the Quest
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Of the Talk Betwixt Birdalone and Viridis
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Birdalone Telleth the Tale of Her Wandering Up the Valley of the Greywethers
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Atra and Birdalone Talk Together While the Lords Sit at the Murder-Council
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Hugh Tells the Story of the Quest’s Ending.
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How It Fared with the Three Ladies After the Escape of Birdalone
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Birdalone and the Black Squire Talk Together in the Hall of the Castle.
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The Knights and Their Fellows Betake Them to the Assaulting of the Red Hold
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Birdalone Bethinks Her to Fulfil the Promise Made Unto Atra
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Birdalone Leaves the Castle of the Quest
THE SIXTH PART: THE DAYS OF ABSENCE
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Birdalone Rides to Greenford and There Takes Leave of Arnold and His Men
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Of Birdalone and Her Fellowship, Their Faring Over the Downland
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They Come to the City of the Five Crafts, and Birdalone Meets with the Poor-Wife
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Of the Love of Gerard’s Sons and of Jacobus for Birdalone
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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
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Of the Sundering of Birdalone from Gerard and His Sons
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Birdalone Cometh to Greenford, and Hears of the Wasting of the Castle of the Quest
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Birdalone Cometh to the Castle of the Quest, Heareth the Tale Thereof from Leonard, and Departeth Thence by the Sending Boat
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Birdalone Findeth the Isle of Nothing Greatly Bettered, and is Kindly Entreated There
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Of Birdalone’s Flitting from the Isle of Nothing
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Coming to the Isle of Kings Birdalone Findeth There A Score and Two of Fair Damsels Who Would Fain Have Her Company
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Birdalone Cometh Again to the Isle of Queens, and Findeth A Perilous Adventure Therein
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Coming to the Isle of the Young and the Old, Birdalone Findeth It Peopled with Children
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The Sending Boat Disappeareth from the Isle of Increase Unsought, and Birdalone Seeketh to Escape Thence by Swimming
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Birdalone Lacketh Little of Drowning, But Cometh Latterly to the Green Eyot
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Birdalone Findeth Her Witch-Mistress Dead
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Birdalone Layeth to Earth the Body of the Witch, and Findeth the Sending Boat Broken Up
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The Wood-Mother Cometh to Birdalone and Heareth Her Story
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Habundia Hideth Birdalone’s Nakedness with Faery Raiment
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Birdalone Telleth Habundia of Her Love for Arthur, and Getteth from Her Promise of Help Therein
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How the Wood-Wife Entered the Cot, and A Wonder That Befell Thereon
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Birdalone Wendeth the Wildwood in Fellowship with Habundia
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The Wood-Wife Bringeth Birdalone to the Sight of Arthur in the Wildwood
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The Wood-Mother Changeth Her Form to That of A Woman Stricken in Years
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The Wood-Wife Healeth and Tendeth the Black Squire
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The Black Squire Telleth the Wood-Wife of His Doings Since Birdalone Went from the Castle of the Quest
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Sir Arthur Cometh to the House Under the Wood
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Fair Days in the House of Love
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Those Twain Will Seek the Wisdom of the Wood-Wife
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They Have Speech with Habundia Concerning the Green Knight and His Fellows
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Habundia Cometh with Tidings of Those Dear Friends
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Of the Fight in the Forest and the Rescue of Those Friends from the Men of the Red Company
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Viridis Telleth the Tale of Their Seeking