Falkayn Remembers...
Falkayn Remembers...II
The full list of what he remembers includes:
"...a double moonglade on the Auroral ocean...";
"...the splendor of an Ythrian on the wing..."
-Mirkheim, VI, p. 109.
Here is another use of "glade" to mean moonlight.
On at least three occasions, Anderson refers to the "splendor" of a flying Ythrian. This passage in Mirkheim must be the source of the title of my post, "An Ythrian On The Wing," see here.
Thus, we find one reference to an Ythrian in Volume IV of what I call the Polesotechnic League Tetralogy. In the original reading order of the early part of the Technic History, the Ythrians do not come on stage until the two Avalonian volumes after the League Tetralogy.
Like Methuselah's Children in Robert Heinlein's Future History, Mirkheim draws together many disparate strands of its future history series.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Yet again, we see Anderson's strange, baffling use of "glade"! Every dictionary I checked for that word insists "glade" means ONLY an open area within a wooded region. And with NOTHING said about it being used to describe any kind of light.
I simply don't understand this idiosyncratic use of "glade" by Anderson. Surely he KNEW of the standard dictionary meaning of that word? Or could he have been using a now very obscure meaning that would "legitimize" his use of the word?
I'm forced to conclude Anderson simply LIKED the sound of "glade" for describing how light looked in dubious neologisms such as "moonglade."
Sean
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