Saturday, 13 January 2018

The Horns Of Elfland

"The pipes sounded high and sweet like the horns of Elfland in the distance..."
-SM Stirling, The Sea Peoples (New York, 2017), Chapter Seven, p. 107.

Google "the horns of Elfland" and a lot comes up. We have heard these horns before in Poul Anderson's War Of The Gods (see here) and in a poem by Lord Tennyson (see here). And for another haunting poem about a call heard faint and far away, see "Sherwood" here. For all previous blog references to "the horns of Elfland," see here. (Scroll down.)

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