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Windsor Castle eBooks
by William Harrison Ainsworth
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Windsor Castle Summary
| Amid the gloom hovering over the early history of Windsor Castle appear the mighty phantoms of the renowned King Arthur and his knights, for whom it is said Merlin reared a magic fortress upon its heights, in a great hall whereof, decorated with trophies of war and of the chase, was placed the famous Round Table. But if the antique tale is now worn out, and no longer part of our faith, it is pleasant at least to record it. |
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| There is in the folklore of Shropshire and Herefordshire a figure known as Wild Eric who, with his pack of flying hounds (the Seven Whistlers) reins wild elemental terror on the woodlands in those parts. Windsor Castle is Ainsworth's tale of Herne the Hunter, and the hunter is an admixture of Wild Eric and a sort of Windsor Mephistopheles: in a very real way, this is a tale of the devil's special haunting of Henry VIII and all of those who so famously attended him. |
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| There is in the folklore of Shropshire and Herefordshire a figure known as Wild Eric who, with his pack of flying hounds (the Seven Whistlers) reins wild elemental terror on the woodlands in those parts. Windsor Castle is Ainsworth's tale of Herne the Hunter, and the hunter is an admixture of Wild Eric and a sort of Windsor Mephistopheles: in a very real way, this is a tale of the devil's special haunting of Henry VIII and all of those who so famously attended him. |
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