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1. See Possible Geographies by Jacinta Crowe (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 1999) and History of Atlantis by Lewis Spence (London: Ryder and Co. 1926)

2 For much of the information on the history of Edil-Amarandh I am indebted to Jacqueline Allison's wideranging study The Annaren Scripts: History Rewritten (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

3 Other major sources are the History of Edil-Amarandh and its Peoples, by Lanorgil of Pellinor (N307) and The Riddle of the Treesong, Maerad of Pellinor and Cadvan of Lirigon, Library of Busk (N1012)

4 Lays of the Elidhu by the Bard Jikarren, Afinil (A237)

5 History of Edil-Amarandh and its Peoples, by Lanorgil of Pellinor (N307)

6 A fascinating and authoritative study of Bardic scripts can be found in Die Urschrift von Annaren by Anschelm Juster (Weinheim: Deutscher Studienverlag 1999)

7 Sharma, King of Nothing by the Bard Nindar, Library of Busk (A2153)

8 For discussion on what is known of Bardic ideas of the afterlife, see chapters IV-VI of Knowing the Light: Comparative Studies in Annaren Spiritual Practice ed. Charles A. James (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001)

9 For a history of Dén Raven, see A Chronicle of the Black Kingdom by Callachan of Gent, translated by Jessica Callaghan (Albany: State University of New York Press 1996)

10 A full discussion of the complex societies of Edil-Amarandh can be found in Genealogies of Light: Power in Edil-Amarandh, ed. Alannah Casagrande (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2000)

11 See Cantos 54-58 of Saliman of Turbansk's poem cycle The Circle of Living (N915)

12 The Balance by Lilidh of Turbansk (N419) was considered the most comprehensive articulation of this idea.

13 See Jérôme Casson's pioneering study of the Speech, La Parole de Edil-Amarandh (Paris: Union de Générale de l'Edition, 1996)

14 Arguments raged between Bards on the origin and power of the Speech for centuries: however, the principal disagreements were best summarised by Hulmir of Norloch (N367) in The Light of Words, and A Discourse on Sacred Names, and in a series of dialogues called The Skins of Speech by Salmira of Jerr-Niken (N456), reportedly destroyed in the sack of Jerr-Niken. Subsequent commentaries and partial copies which survived indicate she was the first to authoritatively theorise the syntactical nature of the Speech.

15 Book 2, The Riddle of the Treesong, by Maerad of Pellinor and Cadvan of Lirigon, Library of Busk (N1012)

16 Ibid

17 See The Annaren Scripts: History Rewritten by Jacqueline Allison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

18 The History of the Starspeech, by the Bard Menellin (A1464)

19 Out of Silence, by Ghoran of Desor, Library of Desor, (N134)

20 Ibid.

21 See Genealogies of Light: Power in Edil-Amarandh, ed. Alannah Casagrande (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2000)

22 Women of the Stars by Anna C. Jones (New York: Simon and Schuster 1997)

23 See Of women by Selimor of Norloch N808 for an example of the anti-female argument, and for its condemnations The Circle of Living by Saliman of Turbansk (N915) and In the Name of the Balance by Oron of Innail (N960)

24 Women of the Stars by Anna C. Jones (New York: Simon and Schuster 1997)

25 Paur Libridha by Manianaë, King of Annar (N23) was the most authoritative and influential text on the constitution of Schools. Its importance might be compared to that of the Magna Carta.

26 Book 3, The Riddle of the Treesong, Maerad of Pellinor and Cadvan of Lirigon, Library of Busk (N1012)

27 For a full discussion of this issue, see Uncategorical Knowledge: The Three Arts of the Starpeople by Claudia J. Armstrong (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)

28 Of the Substance of Light by Thorkon of Turbansk (N615)

29 The Breathing Waves of Gis by Intathen of Gent (N560)

30 The Healing Arts by Malbul of Lirigon (N238)

31 The most comprehensive analysis of the Naraudh Lar-Chanë is Christiane Armongath's L'Histoire de l'Arbre-chant de Annar (Nice: Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 1995).

32 Knowing the Light: Comparative Studies in Annaren Spiritual Practice ed. Charles A. James (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001)

 

 

 

 

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