Dedicated with love and respect to Lord Dunsany, author of “The Riders”
“You asked to become a knight, not an expert on knighthood. To train you further would make you into a scholar, not a fighting man. What remains for you to learn you must learn by living and doing.”
Ben,
I was not going to put in another list of names, but I thought what if he does not get the first part? So here is another. If you got the first half of my letter, you will remember who Disiri is, and Bold Berthold, and a lot of the others. But I have put them in anyway just in case.
Not every name is here. I am sure I missed a few, and some don’t matter.
ABLE
This is what they call me here. It is really the name of Berthold’s brother, whom Disiri switched for me.
AELF
The people Kulili made.
AELFRICE
The world under Mythgarthr, where I am now.
AGR
Marder’s marshal.
ALVIT
The valkyrie who carried me to Skai.
AMABEL
The woman who saved Payn when his mother died.
ANGRBORN
The giants of the ice country (Jotunland).
ARN
One of Garvaon’s archers.
ARNTHOR
The king. His father was a human king, but his mother was a water dragon. Setr was his brother.
BAKI
The Aelfmaid who healed me with her blood.
BEEL
The ambassador Arnthor sent to Jotunland.
BERGELMIR
One of Ymir’s parts that lived. The kings of the giants come from him
BERTHOLD
The man who took me in after I got to Mythgarthr the first time.
BORDA
The captain of Idnn’s bodyguards.
BORGALMIR
The right head of one of Schildstarr’s friends.
BYMIR
A giant I killed with a spit.
CLOUD
The best charger anybody ever had.
COLLE
A baron of Celidon that I freed.
CROL
The herald who helped me when I met Bed’s party.
DANDUN
Another baron of Celidon that I freed.
DISIRI
The woman I love and the girl I love. Both.
EGR
One of Beel’s upper servants. He was in charge of the baggage train.
ELYSION
The world where the Most High God lives. It is above all the rest.
ERAC
One of Arnthor’s own knights.
ESCAN
The Earl Marshal.
ETELA
A slave girl owned by a smith in the town of Utgard.
ETERNE
The Mother of Swords.
FARVAN
My puppy.
FENRIR
He is as bad as the Giants of Winter and Old Night ever get. He bit off the arm of an Overcyn I used to know and liked a lot
FIACH
A warder in the dungeon under Thortower.
FOLKVANGER
The Lady’s house. You would not believe how big it is, or how nice.
FORCETTI
Marder’s town, near Sheerwall Castle.
FRIGG
The Valfather’s queen and Thunor’s mother. She is a beautiful quiet lady everybody loves.
GALENE
A woman I found begging in Kingsdoom.
GARSECG
This is just a name Setr used sometimes when he made himself an Aelf. He was nice to me.
GARVAON
The knight who taught me how to fight with a sword.
GED
A warder in the dungeon under Thortower.
GERDA
The woman Berthold loved.
GILLING
The king of Jotunland.
GRENGARM
The dragon I killed. His picture is on my shield.
GYLF
He was really one of the Valfather’s dogs, but he let me keep him for quite a while.
HAF
One of the boys who tried to rob me.
HALWEARD
The steward Marder sent to Redhall.
HEIMIR
Gerda’s son. He was human but it could be hard to remember.
HELA
Gerda’s daughter. She said she was dumb because she was way too smart to say she was smart.
HERN THE HUNTER
People call the Valfather that sometimes when he hunts with a pack of dogs like Gylf.
HROLFR
A forester who used to work for Escan’s father.
IDNN
Beel’s daughter. Not big or strong, but she had more guts than most men.
IRON MOUTH
One of Smiler’s knights. He was a fine swordsman and the best wrestler I ever saw.
IRRINGSMOUTH
A northern port the Osterlings wrecked.
ISLE OF GLAS
Not really an island, but the top of the tower Setr built in Aelfrice. There were trees and grass on it, and a pool that went to Aelfrice.
JOTUNHOME
The secret country of the Angrborn women. I have never been there.
JOTUNLAND
The Angrborn country, north of the mountains.
KEI
One of Arnthor’s knights. He was a fine jouster.
KINGSDOOM
The capital of Celidon.
KLEOS
Michael’s world, between Elysion and Skai.
KULILI
A person who knit herself out of worms. She could unravel and scatter, which made her hard to catch.
THE LADY
Her father was the Valfather, and it could be hard to believe that somebody so good could know so much and have so many angles.
LAEMPHALT
This was the name Toug gave to the white stallion Beel had given me.
LEORT
The Knight of the Leopards.
LER
An Overcyn. He was the sort of friend you do not have to talk to, and some people thought we were brothers.
LIS
Etella’s grandmother.
LLWCH
One of the toughest knights the Valfather had. They said his sword leaped like fire, and it was true.
LOGI
The smith who owned Etela, Lynnet, and Vil.
LOTHUR
The Valfather’s youngest son. You had to like him, but you always felt you could not trust him.
LOTHURLINGS
The people west of the sea.
LYNNET
Etela’s mamma.
MANASEN
One of Arnthor’s own knights.
MANI
The talking cat who followed Gylf and me from the ruined cottage. He was almost as slick as he thought he was, and a pretty good friend.
MARDER
His dukedom was the northernmost in Celidon after Indign’s was dissolved.
MIMIR
No matter what I say, you will call it a magic spring. Drinking from it brought back certain things you had forgotten.
MOONRISE
Svon’s mount.
MUSPEL
The world the dragons come from.
MYTHGARTHR
The world that belongs to people like us. From highest to lowest: Elysion, Kleos, Skai, Mythgarthr, Aelfrice, Muspei, Niflheim.
NERTHIS
An Overcyn who lived in Mythgarthr. She was the queen of wild animals and made trees grow.
NIFLHEIM
The lowest world, where the most low god is.
NOTT
She is one of the nicer Giants of Winter and Old Night. Night in Mythgarthr belongs to her.
ORG
He was an ogre, and might have been the last in Celidon. I want to say he was a man-shaped snake but hot instead of cold, but he was really more like a gorilla.
ORGALMIR
The left head of Schildstarr’s two-headed friend.
PAPOUNCE
The upper servant in change of Beel’s servants.
PARKA
The lady from Kleos who gave me my bowstring.
PAYN
The Earl Marshal’s chief clerk.
POUK
A sailor I hired in Irringsmouth.
QUT
The leader of the men-at-arms at Redhall.
RAVD
The knight who paid me to guide him.
REDHALL
The manor that used to belong to Ravd.
SANDHILL CASTLE
It was way down on the southern border of Celidon and belonged to Leort’s father.
SETR
He was half human but a dragon. He just about took Aelfrice, and I am sure that what he really wanted was to conquer Mythgarthr.
SIF
Thunor’s wife. She was beautiful, and her hair was always what you remembered best. It was incredible.
SKAI
The Valfather’s world, where the Overcyns are.
SKOLL
The last knight to bear Eterne before me. He was killed by Grengarm.
SMILER
This is what we called the Dragon Prince. The dragon was Grengarm. His people were the Lothurlings.
STONEBOWL
One of Smiler’s chief ministers.
SVON
When I first met him, he was Ravd’s squire; later on he became mine. I left him in the forest because I was afraid I would kill him.
THIAZI
Gilling’s minister and wizard.
THOPE
Marder’s Master of Arms. He was good, brave, wise, and tough, from what I saw of him.
THRYM
The captain of Gilling’s guards. He was the biggest Son of Angr anybody ever saw.
THUNOR
The Valfather’s oldest son, and the model for knights. There were times when I was very, very glad he was on our side.
THYR
The first peasant girl.
TOUG
The peasant boy I took to Aelfrice when I was trying to dodge some outlaws.
TOWER OF GLAS
The skyscraper palace Setr built in Aelfrice.
TYR
Even Thunor said he was the bravest Overcyn.
ULFA
Toug’s sister. She was a little older.
UNS
A farm boy who took in Org and went to work for me.
URI
A Fire Aelfmaid. Setr made her my slave, like Baki.
UTGARD
Gilling’s castle. The town around it was called Utgard, too.
VAFTHRUDNIR
A giant famous for wisdom.
THE VALFATHER
The King of Skai and the model for kings.
VALT
Leort’s squire, and a good one.
VIL
The blind slave who was probably Etela’s father.
VOLLERLAND
In old books this means Jotunhome.
WAR WAY
The main road between Celidon and Jotunland.
WELAND
He made Eterne and became King of the Fire Aelf.
WESTERN TRADER
The ship I left when I met Garsecg.
WILIGA
Once she was the Earl Marshal’s lover.
WISTAN
Garvaon’s squire.
WODDET
Just about the only friend I made in Sheerwall.
YMIR
The first giant.
YOND
The squire who threw himself down on me when they were trying to kill me.
ZIO
The Overcyn who helped Weland. He has a lot of names.