Some Osterling pirates wrecked it.Ī high, rocky island about a quarter of a mile from the mainland. My brother back in America, who I still miss. One of the peasants who used to live in Griffinsford. Thunrolf's steward.Ī Fire Aelf girl I met at the Tower of Glas. All of them are descended from a famous giantess named Angr, or say they are. One of the shield-maidens who ride for the Valfather. He was Marder's marshal, and I have known worse people. They do not work much, protect trees and so forth, and see certain things differently. It was also the name of Bold Berthold's brother.įifth-world people. If a name is not here, I missed it or I do not know either, or I knew you would know already. You would be wasting your time to read this now. If you come across one and wonder who that is, or where it is, you can look here. I have been reading through the first part of this letter, and there are an awful lot of names you will not know. And just the tip of Quixote's spear, The greatest of them all by far, Is surely visible from here! But no: it is the Evening Star. And by yon precipice of white, As steep as Roncesvalles, and more, Within an inch of fancy's sight, Roland the peerless rides to war. There Guinevere is wandering And there the knight Sir Lancelot. The people out of old romance, And people that have never been, And those that on the border dance Between old history and between Resounding fable, as the king Who held his court at Camelot. Gene Wolfe – The Knight THE RIDERS Who treads those level lands of gold, The level fields of mist and air, And rolling mountains manifold And towers of twilight over there? No mortal foot upon them strays, No archer in the towers dwells, But feet too airy for our ways Go up and down their hills and dells. PS3573.052K58 2004 813'.54-dc22 2003060683 First Hardcover Edition: January 2004 First Paperback Edition: January 2005 Printed in Unated States ofAmerica 0987654321ĭedicated with the greatest respect to Yves Meynard, author of THE BOOK OF KNIGHTS

The knight: book one of the wizard knight / Gene Wolfe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wolfe, Gene. Hartwell A Tor Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010 Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. 'The Riders' has been reprinted with the permission of the present Lord Dunsany and the Dunsany Trust. THE KNIGHT: BOOK ONE OF THE WIZARD KNIGHT Copyright © 2004 by Gene Wolfe Illustrations copyright © 2004 by Gregory Manchess All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fic titious or are used fictitiously

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