[…] in 1936, when she was twenty-nine, the firm of Willett Clark published the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion by Evangeline Walton under the title The Virgin and the Swine. An America just climbing out of a worldclass Depression was notably uninterested in fantastic legend, still the stuff of children’s books. Next, three loosely linked short stories appeared, based on the Breton legend of the submerged city, Ys. Nothing more was heard from Evangeline Walton until 1945, when August Derleth started his “Library of Arkham House Novels of Fantasy and Terror” with her gothic mystery Witch House. Eleven years later, Beuregy published The Cross and the Sword, a re-creation of the violent world of the Norse sagas.
The Mabinogion Tetralogy. |Prince of Annwn. The Children of Llyr. The Song of Rhiannon. The Island of the Mighty. | EVANGELINE WALTON, introduction by Betty Ballantine. DUCKWORTH OVERLOOK
After that, silence.
Books disappear in fires. Trashed. Converted to pulp to recover the material. Looted for their bindings’ gemstones. Forgotten in libraries. Unread in Wattpad [mine]. Erased due to faulty CDs or storage units [HD die too].
And yet, some of them survive. Some of them live through it all. Is it the one chance in ten thousand? Pasto kalo.
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