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Dermot's Spring
Dermot destroys Murchard O’Byrne, King of Tir-Cullen of Ireland, 25 Nov 1133, and 17 other rivals
Christmas Alms
Author's Note: The following story, of which I here give a translation, is no doubt largely due to the vivid imagination of some itinerant mendicant working in his own interest.
Between the Ages
Seven 5-line stanzas ababa
A Winter Song
3 quatrains, abab
A Devolution of Terror
“King René of Anjou, the laughter-loving Count of Provence, seeking to divert the melancholy of his beloved wife, Jeanne de Laval, turned the old-time-Keltic terror into gay new fetes: the games of the tarasque. These games are still played. The…