The Water of the Wondrous Isles

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The Water of the Wondrous Isles
By William Morris.


Table of Contents

 Titlepage
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 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
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