From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 21:20:54 +0100

Traditionally the fairies, the Sidhe, the "little people", live "Under the
hill".   This derives from a confusion of old Celtic burial mounds.




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From: "Matthew Davis" 
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Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Stephanides" 
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:17 PM
> Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online
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>
> > So Wolfe is a Kai Lung fan.  I had no idea.
> >
> > I've seen the "princess on a glass mountain" motif twice before: in a
> novel
> > called THE GLASS MOUNTAIN by Leonard Wolf, which I haven't read, and in
a
> > Fractured Fairy Tale (in which the rescuer was a giant frog).  Given
this,
> > I'd expect that it occurs in some genuine fairy tale or medieval
romance,
> > but nothing comes to mind.
>
> The "princess and the glass hill" by andrew lang
>
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=LanBlue.sgm&images=image
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s/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=33&division=div1
>
> which I found by this nifty index to Lang's fairy tales
> http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~emily/Docs/lang.html#p
>
> But does the title allude to anything? One of the hobbits went under the
> false name "Mr Underhill" but nothing else leaps to mind.
>
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