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The Story of the Glittering Plain Which Has Been Also Called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying
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LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1913
First Edition in book form, 200 copies printed at the Kelmscott Press in
the Golden Type, quarto, April 1891, Reeves and Turner, with six copies
on vellum.
Printed at the Kelmscott Press in the Troy Type, with wood-engravings
from designs by Walter Crane, 250 copies and seven on vellum, January
1894.
Included in Volume XIV of the Collected Works of William Morris, July
1912.
CHAPTER I: OF THOSE THREE WHO CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE RAVEN
It has been told that there was once a young man of free kindred and
whose name was Hallblithe: he was fair, strong, and not untried in
battle; he was of the House of the Raven of old time.
This man loved an exceeding fair damsel called the Hostage, who was of
the House of the Rose, wherein it was right and due that the men of the
Raven should wed.
She loved him no less, and no man of the kindred gainsaid their love, and
they were to be wedded on Midsummer Night.
But one day of early spring, when the days were yet short and the nights
long, Hallblithe sat before the porch of the house smoothing an ash stave
for his spear, and he heard the sound of horse-hoofs drawing nigh, and he
looked up and saw folk riding toward the house, and so presently they
rode through the garth gate; and there was no man but he about the house,
so he rose up and went to meet them, and he saw that they were but three
in company: they had weapons with them, and their horses were of the
best; but they were no fellowship for a man to be afraid of; for two of
them were old and feeble, and the third was dark and sad, and drooping of
aspect: it seemed as if they had ridden far and fast, for their spurs
were bloody and their horses all a-sweat.
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