Linnets & Valerians: Week 4
Castle Rock, Birds, Forgiveness and the Hesperus edition
“It was a wonderful summer, with one happy thing after the other falling into place like pearls threaded on a string.“
🌿 Elizabeth Goudge, Linnets & Valerians
Welcome to the last week of Linnets & Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge!
We will talk a bit about the end of the story: the myths and mysteries of Dartmoor, the encouraging birds, the importance of forgiveness in the story and also take a look at the Hesperus edition, entitled The Runaways.
I look forward to discussing it next week together live on Zoom! (The link at the bottom of the post today.)
“It helps on a wicked spell to put the images in an unlucky place. The Castle Rock, though it can look fine when the sun be on it, 'tis an unlucky place.
The Lion be good, but not the Castle. 'Tis too near Weepin' Marsh to be lucky. And a king was found buried there at the top, some old king who died 'undreds an 'undreds o' years ago. That's not lucky neither…”
Castle Rock
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