The Great Myrellenos - An Ode to the Mother Muse
It has been a difficult month, having lost several friends from a variety of illnesses-- and I was ill myself for the last two weeks. Books are moving, the Celtic encyclopaedia I helped to edit will be out presently, but in the meantime, someone has a birthday to commemorate. The Great Myrellenos, the Queen of the Fey of Mlys, might be a made up entity in Frewyn, but she is based on a real person, the Mother Muse, a great lady whom I have always seen as a faerie queen, a woman who edited my artistic soul and spurred me on to commit the gravest of societal sins and become an authoress. Danaco's ship is named after her, and though this lyrical poem does not appear in the book, it is one the Mother Muse would have recited. The Great Myrellenos How, now, has it come to this? What fallen stars have led you here? We meet again, but at what cost? My expiry date would get you here I am lain tar, your face the Muse I am not so delirious as I appear They cannot understand who