A Word Usage Key is at the end. Some commonly used words are there whether used in this chapter or not. Replace th on end of words with ness and t with d or ed and most of the rest are obvious if sounded out aloud. Some words with n or en on the end can be easily understood of the n is replaced by a d or ed. Only difficult words and words that do not exist in English are now referred to specifically with a footnote number. If you have suggestions I would be pleased to consider implementing them.
The brackets after a character e.g. CLAIRE (4 nc) indicates Claire is a character who is 4 years old and a character not encountered before. Ages of incomers are in Earth years at this point and of Folk in Castle years. (4 Folk yrs ≈ 5 Earth yrs. l is lunes, t is tenners.) There is a list of chapters and their significant characters at the bottom too.
11th of Chent Day 14
As she had decided Cherville had obtained a selection of different bramble and fuchsia cultivars in order to continue with her fruit breeding experiments, but she had also joined the group of squash, or gourd as Folk had it, growers. She had been through a difficult and embarrassing separation which she admitted, if only to herself, she had been as much the cause of as Ray. However painful it had been, she had learnt a lot of herself, and of how relationships should be maintained. She had been surprised at her emotions and reactions when Nightshade had sat down beside her with his plate as she ate a rather late eve meal, and said to her in a deep voice, “I am Nightshade. I am thirty-six and a Master mazun with the Keep ingeniators. I am a widower with no children and should like to reach agreement with you and have children. I am as you see not very good-looking, but I am kind, and I should have a deep care to you and any children we may have.”
Blushing vividly she had said, “I don’t consider you to be not very good-looking, and I find myself interested in what you have to say.” Nightshade hadn’t found it easy to continue after his opening remarks, and she had concluded he had prepared those, but his shyth and expectation of being turned down had resulted in him not preparing any further conversation. His vulnerability touched her, and she had no desire to hurt him so she asked, “Why do you want to marry me, Nightshade?”
Nightshade thought deeply, and replied in short bursts, “I wish a wife. I wish children. They telt me you hadn’t a man yet. You are pretty. I don’t know why but I bethinkt me you lookt as if you may like me. I’m not good at this, and if you are not interestet please tell me, and I’ll go away.”
Cherville put her hand on his, and said, “I don’t know yet I want to marry you, but I am sure I am interested in you. I should like it very much if you would be a little less nervous, and talk to me of anything you want to.”
Nightshade continued, “I loes my wife and children to the fevers a year over. I considert making an appearance, but I couldn’t make myself. I noticet you days since, and I findt out you doetn’t have a man and I’ve been waiting till you were somewhere where I could have spaech with you. I haven’t aught else to say.”
Nightshade looked nervously into Cherville’s eyes and then at his hand with hers still covering it. Cherville asked him, “What do you and the other ingeniators do?”
“We maintain the Keep. At the moment I’m re-pointing a section of the extreme south-west inner tower. It’s a section none lives in or uses for crafting. I don’t understand why because it’s pleasant place with the sound of the sea, the sea birds and the seals that use the shore to the south when they have their young. It’s even yclept(1) Seal Shores. I’m also doing some work repairing the Keep water supply.” She taekt her hand off his and they finished their meal in silence. Nightshade then asked, “Would you like spicet leaf, or a glass of something, Cherville?”
Cherville had decided she liekt Nightshade a lot, but she wished to spend more time with him before making any commitment, so she replied, “No, thank you, but I should like you to take me to the south-west tower where you have been working please.”
Nightshade had said, “I’d like to do that, but we need overcoats because it will be calt now and the spray off the sea from the building storm will make it worse.” They retrieved their coats from the far end of the Refectory, and Nightshade had helped Cherville on with hers, pulling the collar up ready for her to settle her deep-hat(2) berount it.
As they had walked out of the Refectory she put her arm through his, and she felt him stiffen in surprise and then relax as she asked him, “Will you tell me of the parts of the Keep we pass through, Nightshade?”
Nightshade did so and having something to spaek of he was familiar with eased his conversation. He explained how the various mechanisms worked, how the routes through the Keep were complex and aught but direct, and that they were part of what children had to learn. He pointed out the parts he had personally maintained. They walked slowly so Nightshade had time to explain as they went and Cherville had time to absorb the information. It was an hour and a quarter before they arrived at the south-west tower section, during the whole of which Cherville had had her arm through Nightshade’s. When they arrived Nightshade said, “Of course if you are in a hurry, providet you know the way, you could cross the courtyard and be back at the Refectory within twenty minutes.”
As they climbed the tower stairs they could better hear the claps of thunder, and the edges of the tiny granite crystals glittered and scintillated as the stone was illuminated more brightly than by sunlight when the lightning flashed through the arrow loops.(3) On reaching the top they walked along the inner edge of the allure, for the sand in the storm driven ocean spray maekt it too painful to approach the battlements. Cherville held her hand out for Nightshade to take, but he put her arm through his just as a gust pushed them gainst the inner safety wall. She held on tightly and the pair smiled at each other enjoying the necessity of the intimacy. In between the thunder claps, Nightshade explained the defensive purposes of the various structures which he’d had to learn as an apprentice, but which he telt her as far as he or any other was aware had never been uest for those purposes.
He guided her to the observation tower, and they climbed the seemingly endless stairs to the platform. The platform was the highest point of the Keep and from it they could look out over the cliff. The ocean spray still maekt things a little unpleasant but they were appropriately dresst and the platform was walled to chest highth and roofed with heavily overhanging eaves with deep gutters. “You are now a hundred and sixty seven strides above the sea’s calm weather level,” Nightshade telt her with a laugh. “I learnt that as an apprentice, but as I have never yet seen the sea calm how it was originally determint I have no idea. The roof was completely renewt seven years over. It taekt us two and a half lunes to erect the scaffolding and two years to effect the rebuild. It was the most exciting and dangerous work I have ever doen, it was also the slowest as oft the weather maekt work impossible.”
It was a cold but glorious eve. The storm out to sea was whipping the waves up to in excess of a hundred feet high, then undercutting and freeing quantities of water larger than the Greathall to hurl them gainst the cliff and almost as an afterthought lifting the abrasive ocean spray over the battlements. Cherville thought, “The sky seems to be very low,” and then smiled as on reflection it was a rather ridiculous albeit amusing concept. The flashes of lightning cast all into sharp moody contrast, the welcoming, heart-warming sights brighter than by day knife edged gainst the fell seeming horrors of the impenetrable unknowable void that was the shade. The remorseless sounds were overwhelming in their diversity, complexity and sheer volume as they ever varyingly amplified and obliterated each other in all possible proportions and with apparent equal likelihood.
The wave tops were scouring the granite with the sand and stones they carried as they immolated themselfs gainst the cliff, some of the stones were heavier than a man, and then, braeken and rebuffed for the now they trickled down with a just audible emasculated gurgle, as they pursued their æons long task to wear the granite away and vanquish it like all else to dust, which eventually they would achieve only, aided by the subjugated granite, to embark on another such task. As the storm reached its zenith, Cherville huddled closer to Nightshade. He looked at her and they smiled as their concentration momentarily returned to each other rather than being focussed on the storm.
The wind was now whistling, wheezing and whimpering, hissing, howling and harrying berount the walls and through every gap and fissure, from the wide spaces between the Keep buildings and the wall crenellations to the invisible hairline cracks in the stonework mortar, like some monstrous cathedral organ playing a random selection of notes from twelve if not more octaves, extending beyond both ends of human hearing. Notes ranging from the rumbling vibrations Cherville could feel through the soles of her feet, as the granite massif rendered its resistance to the water and wind into a crystalline song only rock could appreciate the beauty of, all the way up to the skull piercing strokings of the shrills, which didn’t so much fade as float off up to where they could no longer be heard, whilst the lime in the mortar healt itself(4) and screamed its despite into the face of the wind as it repaired the cracks with the very air that was trying so hard to force ingress and widen them.
Dominating all, as they over-powered all else, were the random claps of thunder, broody with the rolling fœtal clamours of unbirtht litters of lesser claps rumbling berount within their enwombing parental salvoes. By comparison the constant raucous yet mournful screaming of the sea birds and the sporadic argumentative squabbling of the seals on their nursery-ground were quiet disharmonious background noises rendered almost pleasant by their organic origins. The power of the storm, which was capable of wreaking such untelt havoc, trivialised all concept of humanity, neither benign nor malign the storm simply was. Cherville had never imagined such a thing, the sights, sounds, sensations, smells and salty tastes of the environment berount her she was exposed to as she experienced the damp sea air created a sensory encounter so overwhelming in its deepth and scope she was unaware of her arm through Nightshade’s, her hand in his, both in his overcoat pocket for warmth and even why she was there for whole minutes at a time. So much so, when Nightshade touched her arm to indicate they should go back she was startled.
When they returned to the wet, sand and stone covered, but spray free allure the wind had ceased its erstwhile chaotically orchestrated cacophony as it eased and was now gently soughing and moaning as the storm fading a little moved out to sea in a south-westerly direction. Both full in the eve sky, Lune and Dimidd incarnadined by the louring redding Mother sun and with a dark upper edge looked like a mismatched pair of bloodshot drunken eyes, complete with lashes, skenning(5) down on the sobering world below as the storm moved away. The couple were there two hours taking in what was berount them. Nightshade pointed out various features of the Keep some of which could only be seen from their elevation, but mostly they spent the two hours acutely aware of, and enjoying, holding hands.
As the Mother finally set, sliding slowly down between the fantastically textured, shimmering, mackerel brocade-patterned sea and the anvil clouded, lightning rent, multihued gloaming sky, Cherville realised this was the most romantic setting she had ever been in, and it would never occur again, for things only happened for the first time once, and not to enjoy it to the full would be utter folly. Turning to face Nightshade she kissed him lightly, and her voice husky with the effects of her storm within asked, “Nightshade?” By the time they had finished their second kiss the final traces of the sunlight had left both sea and sky to their lonely vigil, and they had been kissing by Lunelight with a second fainter shadow cast by Dimidd. The lightning strikes were less frequent now and only lasting a second or so, but they were plunging the couple into darkth for half a minute at a time as their sight recovered from the brief but dazzling flashes.
The Keep was almost as silent now as it ever became, just the endless savagery of the sea and its scouring sand, the wailing wind, the squabbling seals and the odd attenuated thunder clap coming from over the horizon to listen to. They carried on kissing enjoying the lunelight on which the flashes and their subsequent dark interludes superimposed themselves, yet though the storm out to sea was fading they now had to confront the building storm that was lashing their emotions and producing waves of desire that mindless as the water were beginning to wash over them. Cherville was doing some rapid thinking. “Do I sleep with Nightshade tonight or not?” That she wished to sleep with him she knew. “Why not tonight? Was it the old thing of he won’t respect me if I sleep with him the first time or was there something else? Do I want to marry him?” She concluded, “Yes, I do want to marry him.” He was gentle, over gentle when kissing, but she was sure she could encourage him to be more positive, but still she came to no conclusion regards sleeping with him thisnight, and she was running out of time in which to decide. She had never been a gambler, but perhaps Cherville was, so she decided to put the situation to Nightshade. “Nightshade, do you still want to marry me?”
“Yes, I do, more than ever,” he replied quietly.
“Where I come from it is not considered proper for a woman to sleep with a man after their first meeting. I am not sure whether that’s how I feel or not, but something is holding me back from sleeping with you tonight. I do want to marry you, and I do want to sleep with you tomorrow night, but I want a little time to think. I don’t want you to think I have been leading you on, and it will upset me if you think badly of me.”
By the time she had finished there were tears in her eyes, and Nightshade put his arms berount her. He kissed her forehead very gently, even by his standards, and said, “I don’t understand, but it’s a riandet.(6) I’m just happy you wish to marry me. Will you meet me nextday forenoon at nine in the Refectory and then we’ll go to my chamber? I ask because I only have a small chamber, but some of the furniture is good, and you can decide what you wish to keep. We could then go to the Master at arms to arrange for a bigger suite of chambers, and then the wood crafters’ stores for furniture and a suitable bed, mine is only small.”
Cherville looked thoughtful and replied, “That seems sensible.” She hesitated a little, “If it’s only twenty minutes from here to the Refectory I should love to live here? Would you mind?”
Nightshade didn’t hesitate and replied, “I’ve always lovt being here. No, I don’t mind. I’d love to live here too.” They spent a little more time kissing before he escorted Cherville back to her chamber.
Nightshade said, “Goodnight,” at her doorway which taekt longer than necessary, and went back to his small bed happier than he had been for a long time. Even as she had been kissing him goodnight Cherville had started to regret her decision not to sleep with Nightshade thisnight. Her body was craving the touch of a man. The eve had given her just enough to desperately wish more, but as she reflected, it was her idea not his, so she’d just have to live with it thisnight. She wondered if being at the most fertile part of her cycle had anything to do with the way she felt. That initiated a different set of thoughts, thoughts of being pregnant, nursing babes and having a family. Which for the first time in her life she found to be exciting ideas. As she undresst she looked at herself in the mirror trying to envisage what she would look like pregnant. She fell asleep thinking not of Nightshade, but of being pregnant, and what it would be like. Thoughts she found calming, but she was not thinking of anything for long. Her peaceful and rather beautiful dreams were a tangled mix of being pregnant, nursing a babe, being an unbirtht babe and of nursing at her mother’s breast.
12th of Chent Day 15
Rowan had been having spaech with Milligan concerning the collection and organisation of the Keep food stores for the coming cold season. He had telt her of the much lower food losses now the kennel squad were working the food stores regularly, and even though all the spoilt flour and grains would be uest eventually he was going to have Ingot continue to bake the dry biscuit-like-bread for the squad’s dogs as it taekt far less than what the rats spoilt, and since the dogs’ biscuits were baked in the residual heat from the ovens as they dien down it cost next to naught in fuel. It was from his point of view a satisfactory arrangement as it also maekt good use of any stale bread not required for other uses and some of the kitchen by-products that could not be re-served, and the squad were providing an astonishing quantity of meat into the bargain. “Better the dogs than the hens or the compost, Rowan,” he had explained.
He asked if she had any idea what the effect of a successful horse-drawn reaper-binder would be on the harvest. She’d had to admit she had no real idea, but the machiners, as the crafters of the new craft were now being referred to, and the growers expected it to mean a slightly higher proportion of the grain harvested, and a quicker harvest which would make a difference to the total harvest especially in years when the weather turned difficult unseasonably early and much was usually lost. Milligan telt her of the favourable results obtained so far by the growers with the sprouting seeds.
As an afterthought, she asked how his new crafters had settled in. Milligan, in general not a humorous man, laught and replied, “Things couldn’t be better, especially with the group of eight women Thomas and Gosellyn were concernt for. After Basil and I explaint the crafting opportunities in our offices, three joint the kitcheners, and five the chamberers. They each had at least a dozen men paying court to them by the end of their first day’s crafting. The three women craftet to the kitcheners were all settelt in their craft and marryt inside a tenner, and all of them to Keep staff. Kaya marryt Acorn the carpenter, Marion marryt Morrell the forager and Tessa swept Sage the cook off his feet. I’d have put tokens on that he’d never marry. The five craftet to Basil’s chamberers were even faster settling in, Rochelle marryt Dapple the firekeeper, Shelly marryt apprentice cook Pavior, Wendy marryt Arrow the cellarer, Shelby marryt Henge the sweep and the cream of the jest(7) is Sharon taekt care of Basil, and he’s walking berount with a permanent trace of a smile these days. I’m not sure I’ll ever become uest to that!” Rowan hadn’t heard of Basil’s agreement and laught with Milligan, since though Milligan wasn’t generally humorous, Basil was always positively dour.
Milligan continued, “Best of all, I had a young woman naemt Iola seek me out on her own seeking apprenticeship. She’s a girl really and will only turn fourteen of their years, three-quarters of a year after she joins us, but she’s tall and has a quiet maturity that makes one consider her to be adult. She sayt she wishes to learn it all eventually. I’m glad she came to see me first. A young woman of the highest potential, she could be Head cook one day. She’s one of a family of six syskonen,(8) all newfolk. Her grandparents and her mum are newfolk too. Only her dad, Storm the millstone dresser, is folkbirtht, so I telt her to take a tenner to settle in first and come to see me then. She lookt unhappy at that, so I telt her, if she willen, she could regard her apprenticeship as definite, and whilst times I’d have her instrument of apprenticeship prepaert and arrange her Mistress cook, which must have been what she willen to hear because that put the smile back on her face. Alice sayt she’d be pleast to take her. Orchid one of the cheese makers telt me she’s heartfrienden with her son Heron who will be joining us as an apprentice baker betimes, so she’s obviously settling in tightly. As you know, Rowan, Basil and I always have a large number of crafters who need close supervision, which is as it should be in offices as large as ours, but to manage them we have a want of crafters with supervisory skills as well as craft skills.”
Rowan congratulated Milligan on his new crafter, and decided she needed to become acquainted with Iola. Few youngsters would willingly have spaech with Milligan, who, especially for the young, was intimidating, and very few indeed had what it taekt to impress him. He was an intelligent and skilled manager, as his successful management of the troubled kitchens proven, and an exceedingly good judge of character. Those who could impress him at the age of threeteen which was ten or eleven in Castle years were indeed of the highest potential and would be worth watching.
12th of Chent Day 15
Jed’s brothers had been aware he was seeing a girl for some time, for most of them had seen the pair together, and they even knew who she was as a result of them now having enough folkbirtht friends for most gossip to reach them, and Beth heard what little the boys didn’t from the girls. As a result of Beth’s entreaty that they leave him alone and Wayland’s influence they had said nothing, even avoiding the pair on occasion, and left Jed to tell them of Warbler in his own way and time. Once he had all the known facts, Wayland, unlike Glaze, was intelligent enough to deduce the entire story regards Warbler, Jed and Otday, and, after explaining all, had telt his brothers and Beth to listen carefully to all gossip and monitor Otday’s movements. Gage, with all his brothers’ agreement, was all for them having ‘a friendly chat’ with Otday, but Beth who was uncharacteristically hostile towards Otday, inexplicably said, “Leave it to Jed, please, Boys.” When asked to explain why, she’d said, “I’m sure Jed will deal with the matter much more firmly than even you would, Gage, and were he my heartfriend I would wish for him to do so himself in his own way. After all it’s Warbler who’s been offendet gainst, for unlike Jed I doubt she can deal with Otday herself, and I’m sure that’s how she’ll feel regards the matter for she is his.”
Beth hesitated, and Wayland said, “Go on, Beth, all of it, Girl. What do you know we don’t?”
“The girls tell me Jed really has a care to Warbler, and Spearmint says he is in love with her even though he probably doesn’t realise it yet. They all say that without doubt she loves him, and are convinced they will be agreäns one day. I believe she will be truly our sister soon. As Jed’s sister, I know his self respect needs him to deal with this himself. As Warbler’s sister, I wish Otday punisht, and Jed’s care to her will ensure he does that properly. I also believe Wayland is right. We listen and watch, but otherwise mind our own affairs for the moment.”
Her brothers chuckled and agreed Jed would undoubtedly be appropriately firm, which they considered to be amusing as normally he couldn’t be bothered with folk he didn’t know well, but they had always considered Gage had been right when he’d said, “Jed’s a really good mate, but I’m glad he’s my brother, cos he’ll be one bad bastard to cross.”
Beth paused again and then looked like she’d maekt her mind up regards some thing, and with Wayland’s encouragement continued, “Funny thing, that dagger of his isn’t it?”
“How do you mean funny, Beth?” asked Liam. “The blade is two spans long, so it’s over long for a belt knife and not long enough nor heavy enough for a work knife. The blade’s lethal sharp, Jed shewed me he can thin a hair with it, and not having any hilt guards means it’s dangerous not funny. It’s nowhere near as safe to use as Gage’s belt knife nor even a work knife. The only thing it’s any use for is as a weapon.” At that the boys started to smile.
“Exactly! It’s perfect for a weapon, and I didn’t mean the dagger was funny, Liam. What’s funny, or may hap I meant odd, or then again may hap funny is the right word, is we’d all seen it lying on that casement sill since the squad formt, and we all thought it requiert far too much work doing on it to bother with, and rather than do that and have hilt guards fitt we’d just wait till the work knifes Gage ordert arrivt, but then Jed must have changed his mind and cleant and sharpened it the forenoon after Quarterday, for that’s when it disappeared off the sill. It was gone when Fergal and I fedd the ferrets just after lunch. Why bethink you he did that? What was so urgent that he needed it for? And why has he stopped wearing it openly on his belt recently? Where is he carrying it? Because I don’t believe he goes anywhere without it.”
The boys’ smiles were not pleasant, and all agreed with Chris when he said with a great deal of put on sanctimoniousth, “Know what, Boys? I think Beth is right. We should stay right out of it. It’s not the sort of thing nice girls and boys like us should be getting involvt in is it? After all, Jed is pretty reliable. I mean if he really needed help to barbecue the bastard he’d ask us wouldn’t he? I wish he’d introduce us to Warbler though, cos it’ll make his life a whole lot better stead of having to go round hiding. His life must have been pretty shitty before he came here to be bothered by what we’ll think just cos he has a girl friend. A heartfriend I mean.” Chris kissed Beth’s cheek and said, “Nice one, Sis. Any chance of you getting to know Warbler? I mean like girl to girl by bumping into her by accident?”
“I’ve been thinking on it, Chris, cos we’ve got to do something. I’m sure I can manage it. Leave it with me.”
Index of significant characters so far listed by Chapter
1 Introduction
2 Jacques de Saint d’Espéranche
3 The Folk and the Keep
4 Hwijje, Travisher, Will
5 Yew, Allan, Rowan,Siskin, Will, Thomas, Merle, Molly, Aaron, Gareth, Oak, Abigail, Milligan, Basil, Vinnek, Iris, Margæt, Gilla, Alsike, Alfalfa, Gibb, Happith, Kroïn, Mako, Pilot, Briar, Gosellyn, Gren, Hazel
6 Chaunter, Waxwing, Flame, João, Clansaver, Irune, Ceël, Barroo, Campion, Limpet, Vlæna, Xera, Rook, Falcon, Cwm, Sanderling, Aldeia, Catarina, Coast, Elixabete
7 Mercedes, Spoonbill
8 Lyllabette, Yoomarrianna
9 Helen, Duncan, Gosellyn, Eudes, Abigail
10 George/Gage, Iris, Waverley, Belinda
11 Marc/Marcy, Pol
12 George/Gage, Marcy, Freddy/Bittern, Weyland, Iris, Bling
13 Thomas, Will, Mercedes, Llyllabette, Yoomarrianna
14 Kyle, Thomas, Will, Angélique
15 Mercedes, Morgelle, Gorse, Thrift, George/Gage, Chris, Iris, Thrift, Campion
16 Bling
17 Waverley, Mr. E
18 George/Gage, Larch, Mari, Ford, Gorse, Morgelle, Luke, Erin
19 Will, Pilot, Yew, Geoge/Gage, Mari, Ford, Gosellyn, Cwm, Cerise, Filbert, Gareth, Duncan, Helen, Thomas, Iris, Plume, Campion, Pim, Rook, Falcon, João, Hare
20 Yew, Rowan, Will, Thomas, Siskin, Weir, Grayling, Willow
21 Brook, Harrier, Cherry, Abby, Selena, Borage, Sætwæn, Fiona, Fergal
22 Yew, Thomas, Hazel, Rowan, Gosellyn, Siskin, Will, Lianna, Duncan
23 Tench, Knawel, Claire, Oliver, Loosestrife, Bramling, George, Lyre, Janice, Kæn, Joan, Eric
24 Luke, Sanderling, Ursula, Gervaise, Mike, Spruce, Moss
25 Janet, Vincent, Douglas, Alec, Alice
26 Pearl, Merlin, Willow, Ella, Suki, Tull, Irena
27 Gina, Hardy, Lilac, Jessica, Teal, Anna
28 Bryony, Judith, Bronwen, Farsight
29 Muriel, Raquel, Grace
30 Catherine, Crane, Snipe, Winifred, Dominique, Ferdinand
31 Alma, Allan, Morris, Miranda
32 Dabchick, Nigel
33 Raquel, Thistle, Agrimony, Benjamin, Ian, Phœbe
34 Eleanor, Woad, Catherine, Crane
35 Muriel, Hail, Joan, Breve, Eric, Nell, Mayblossom, Judith, Storm
36 Selena,Sætwæn, Borage, Grace, Gatekeeper, Raquel, Thistle
37 Siân, Mackerel, Winifred, Obsidian
38 Carla, Petrel, Alkanet, Ferdinand
39 Dominique, Oxlip, Alma, Allan, Tress, Bryony
40 Agrimony, Benjamin, Ian, Ella, Kestrel, Judith, Storm
41 Ella, Kestrel, Tress, Bryony, Tunn, Whin, Plane
42 Weights & Measures and Sunrise & Sunset Times included in Ch 41
43 Ella, Kestrel, Serenity, Smile, Gwendoline, Rook, Tress, Bryony, Tunn, Whin, Plane, Sapphire, Mere
44 Pearl, Merlin, Rainbow, Perch, Joan, Breve, truth, Rachael, Hedger, Ruby, Deepwater
45 Janet, Blackdyke, Janice, Kæn, Ursula, Oyster
46 Janet, Gina, Alastaire, Joan, Breve, Truth, Bræth, Mayblossom, Judith, Storm
47 The Squad, Mercedes, Fen, Judith, Storm, Iola, Alwydd, Heidi, Rock, Stephanie, Matthew
48 Bronwen, Forest, Opal, Spice, Vincent, Kathleen, Niall, Bluebell, Sophie
49 Janice, Kæn, Ursula, Oyster, Imogen, Wryneck, Phœbe, Knapps
50 Erin, Nightjar, Eleanor, Woad
51 Gina, Jonas, Janet, Gerald, Patrick, Tansy, Craig, Barret, Ryan
52 Constance, Rye, Bling, Bullace, Berry, Jimmy, Leveret, Rory, Shelagh, Silas
53 Rachael, Hedger, Eve, Gilla, Mallard, Fiona, Fergal, Tinder, Nightingale, Fran, Dyker
54 Pamela, Mullein, Patricia, Chestnut, Lavinia, Ophæn, Catherine, Crane
55 Susan, Kingfisher, Janet, Gina, Jonas, Ruth, Kilroy, Judith, Storm, Iola, Alwydd, Heidi, Rock, Stephanie, Matthew
56 Gina, Jonas, Patricia, Chestnut, The Squad, Hazel, Janet, Blackdyke, Swift, Clover, Vetch, Mangel, Clary, Brendan
57 Erin, Nightjar, Xera, Josephine, Wels, Michelle, Musk, Swansdown, Tenor
58 Timothy, Axel, Nectar, Waverley,Yvette, Whitebear, Firefly, Farsight, Janet, Blackdyke, Swift, Clover, Vetch
59 Lilac, Firefly, Farsight, Lucinda, Gimlet, Leech, Janet, Blackdyke
60 Douglas, Lunelight, Yvette, Whitebear, Thrift, Haw, Harebell, Goosander, Judith, Storm, Iola, Alwydd, Heidi, Rock, Stephanie, Matthew, Matilda, Evan, Heron
61 Brendan, Clary, Chloë, Apricot, Llyllabette, Yoomarrianna, Otis, Harry, Gimlet, Leech, Jodie
62 Gimlet, Leech, Lark, Seth, Charles, Bruana, Noah, Kirsty, Shirley, Mint, Kevin, Faith, Oak, Lilly, Jason, Gem, Ellen
63 Honesty, Peter, Bella, Abel, Kell, Deal, Siobhan, Scout, Jodie
64 Heather, Jon, Anise, Holly, Gift, Dirk, Lilac, Jasmine, Ash, Beech, Ivy, David
65 Sérent, Dace, Opal, Spice, Vincent, Clarissa, Gorse, Eagle, Frond, Diana, Gander, Gyre, Tania, Alice, Alec
66 Suki, Tull, Buzzard, Mint, Kevin, Harmony, Fran, Dyker, Joining the Clans, Pamela, Mullein, Mist, Francis, Kristiana, Cliff, Patricia, Chestnut, Timothy, Axel, Nectar, Waverly, Tarragon, Edrydd, Louise, Turnstone, Jane, Mase, Cynthia, Merle, Warbler, Spearmint, Stonecrop
67 Warbler, Jed, Fiona, Fergal, Marcy, Wayland, Otday, Xoë, Luval, Spearmint, Stonecrop, Merle, Cynthia, Eorle, Betony, Smile
68 Pansy, Pim,Phlox, Stuart, Marilyn, Goth, Lunelight, Douglas, Crystal, Godwit, Estelle, Slimlyspoon, Lyre, George, Damson, Lilac
69 Honesty, Peter, Abel, Bella, Judith, storm, Matilda, Evean, Iola, Heron, Mint, Kevin, Lilac, Happith, Gloria, Peregrine
70 Lillian, Tussock, Modesty, Thyme, Vivienne, Minyet, Ivy, David, Jasmine, Lilac, Ash, Beech
71 Quartet & Rebecca, Gimlet & Leech, The Squad, Lyre & George, Deadth, Gift
72 Gareth, Willow, Ivy, David, Kæna,Chive, Hyssop, Birch, Lucinda, Camomile, Meredith, Cormorant, Whisker, Florence, Murre, Iola, Milligan, Yarrow, Flagstaff, Swansdown, Tenor, Morgan, Yinjærik, Silvia, Harmaish, Billie, Jo, Stacey, Juniper
73 The Growers, The Reluctants, Miriam, Roger, Lauren, Dermot, Lindsay, Scott, Will, Chris, Plume, Stacey, Juniper
74 Warbler, Jed, Veronica, Campion, Mast, Lucinda, Cormorant, Camomile, Yellowstone
75 Katheen, Raymnd, Niall, Bluebe, Sophie, Hazel, Ivy, Shadow, Allison, Amber, Judith, Storm Alwydd, Matthew, Beatrix, Jackdaw, The Squad, Elders, Jennt, Bronze, Maeve, Wain, Monique, Piddock, Melissa, Roebuck, Aaron, Carley Jade, Zoë, Vikki, Bekka, Mint, Torrent
76 Gimlet, Leech,Gwendoline, Georgina, Quail. Birchbark, Hemlock, Peter, Honesty, Bella, Hannah, Aaron, Torrent, Zoë, Bekka, Vikki, Jade, Carley, Chough, Anvil, Clematis, Stonechat, Peace, Xanders, Gosellyn, Yew, Thomas, Campion, Will, Iris, Gareth
77 Zoë, Torrent, Chough, Stonechat, Veronica, Mast, Sledge, Cloudberry, Aconite, Cygnet, Smokt
78 Jed, Warbler, Luval, Glaze, Seriousth, Blackdyke, Happith, Camilla
79 Torrent, Zoë, Stonechat, Clematis, Aaron, Maeve, Gina, Bracken, Gosellyn, Paene, Veronica, Mast, Fracha, Squid, Silverherb
80 George/Gage, Niall, Alwydd, Marcy/Beth, Freddy/Bittern, Wayland, Chris, Manic/Glen, Guy, Liam, Jed, Fergal, Sharky
81 The Squad, Manic/Glen, Jackdaw, Beatrix, Freddy/Bittern, Fiona, Fergal, Wayland, Jade, Stonechat, Beauty, Mast, Veronica, Raven, Tyelt, Fid
82 Gimlet, Leech, Scentleaf, Ramson, Grouse, Aspen, Stonechat, Bekka, Carley, Vikki, Morgelle, Bistort, Fritillary, Jed, Warbler, Spearmint, Alwydd, Billie, Diver, Seal, Whitethorn
83 Alastair, Carrom, Céline, Quickthorn, Corral, Morgelle, Fritillary, Bistort, Walnut, Tarragon, Edrydd, Octopus, Sweetbean, Shrike, Zoë, Torrent, Aaron, Vinnek, Zephyr, Eleanor, Woad, George/Gage, The Squad, Ingot, Yellowstone, Phthalen, Will
84 Morgelle, Bistort, Fritillary, Alsike, Campion, Siskin, Gosellyn, Yew, Rowan, Thomas, Will, Aaron, Dabchick, Nigel, Tuyere
85 Jo, Knott, Sallow, Margæt, Irena, Tabby, Jade, Phthalen, Yumalle, Stonechat, Spearmint, Alwydd, Seriousth, Warbler, Jed, Brett, Russel, Barleycorn, Crossbill, Lizo, Hendrix, Monkshood, Eyrie, Whelk, Gove, Gilla, Faarl, Eyebright, Alma, axx, Allan, daisy, Suki, Tull
Word Usage Key
Some commonly used words are below. Replace th on end of words with ness and t with d or ed and most of the rest are obvious if sounded out aloud. Some words with n or en on the end can be easily understood if the n is replaced by a d. Only difficult words and words that do not exist in English are now referred to specifically.
Agreän(s), those person(s) one has marital agreement with, spouse(s).
Bethinkt, thought.
Braekt, broke.
Doet, did. Pronounced dote.
Doetn’t, didn’t. Pronounced dough + ent.
Findt, found,
Goen, gone
Goent, went.
Heartfriend, a relationship of much more significance than being a girl- or boy-friend is on Earth. Oft such relationships are formed from as young as four and they are taken seriously by both children and adults. A child’s heartfriend is automatically one of their heartfriend’s parents’ children too, and a sibling to their heartfriend’s siblings. Such relationships rarely fail and are seen as precursors to becoming intendet and having agreement.
Intendet, fiancée or fiancé.
Lastdaysince, the day before yesterday.
Loes, lost.
Maekt, made.
Nextdaynigh, the day after tomorrow.
Sayt, said.
Taekt, took.
Telt, told.
Uest, used.
1 Yclept, named or called as in English. Unlike in modern English yclept is a word in common usage in Folk though the word is never uest in connection with persons only with animals and places, though there are other less common usages.
2 A deep-hat is a hat favoured by Folk who spend time in the open especially when the weather is poor, notably hunters and waggoners. It has sides and a back which can be tied up over the crown in better weather or dropped down to cover the ears and the neck. When lowered the sides and back fit on the outside of a fur coat collar preventing entry of snow or rain. It is a bad weather version of a Russian ushanka.
3 Arrow loop, a hole whose primary function is for archers to fire at attackers. Also referred to as arrow slits or oillets.
4 Healt, Healed. Cracks in lime mortar absorb carbon dioxide from the air turning exposed calcium hydroxide into calcium carbonate which has a larger volume and mends the cracks by chemically bonding the fresh surfaces to each other as it does so.
5 Skenning, squinting.
6 Riandet, a matter of no significance.
7 The cream of it. Folk expression indicating the best as cream is the best or the top of the milk. It could be as here the funniest, but it is a widely uest expression in an almost limitless variety of contexts.
8 Syskon(en), sibling(s).
