The King of Elfland's Daughter

by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett

[By S. H. Sime]

THE HUNTING OF THE UNICORN

The King of Elfland’s
Daughter

 

By
Lord Dunsany

 

G.P. Putnam’s Sons
New York & London
The Knickerbocker Press
1924

 

Copyright, 1924
by
Lord Dunsany

 

Made in the United States of America

 

 

TO
LADY DUNSANY

 

 

PREFACE

I hope that no suggestion of any strange land that may be conveyed by the title will scare readers away from this book; for, though some chapters do indeed tell of Elfland, in the greater part of them there is no more to be shown than the face of the fields we know, and ordinary English woods and a common village and valley, a good twenty or twenty-five miles from the border of Elfland.

 

CONTENTS

		PAGE
CHAPTER ONE		1
The Plan of the Parliament of Erl
CHAPTER TWO		11
Alveric Comes in Sight of the Elfin Mountains
CHAPTER THREE		21
The Magical Sword Meets Some of the Swords of Elfland
CHAPTER FOUR		31
Alveric Comes Back to Earth After Many Years
CHAPTER FIVE		37
The Wisdom of the Parliament of Erl
CHAPTER SIX		47
The Rune of the Elf King
CHAPTER SEVEN		53
The Coming of the Troll
CHAPTER EIGHT		61
The Arrival of the Rune
CHAPTER NINE		71
Lirazel Blows Away
CHAPTER TEN		79
The Ebbing of Elfland
CHAPTER ELEVEN		87
The Deep of the Woods
CHAPTER TWELVE		97
The Unenchanted Plain
CHAPTER THIRTEEN		107
The Reticence of the Leather-worker
CHAPTER FOURTEEN		115
The Quest of the Elfin Mountains
CHAPTER FIFTEEN		123
The Retreat of the Elf King
CHAPTER SIXTEEN		131
Orion Hunts the Stag
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN		141
The Unicorn Comes in the Starlight
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN		145
The Grey Tent in the Evening
CHAPTER NINETEEN		153
Twelve Old Men without Magic
CHAPTER TWENTY		165
A Historical Fact
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE		173
On the Verge of Earth
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO		181
Orion Appoints a Whip
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE		191
Lurulu Watches the Restlessness of Earth
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR		201
Lurulu Speaks of Earth and the Ways of Men
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE		209
Lirazel Remembers the Fields we Know
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX		221
The Horn of Alveric
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN		235
The Return of Lurulu
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT		245
A Chapter on Unicorn Hunting
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE		253
The Luring of the People of the Marshes
CHAPTER THIRTY		261
The Coming of too much Magic
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE		269
The Cursing of Elfin Things
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO		273
Lirazel Yearns for Earth
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE		281
The Shining Line
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR		291
The Last Great Rune

 

The King of Elfland’s
Daughter

 

 

By LORD DUNSANY

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