Author: Hannah Kent
Cites
- NULL (1)
- IN: Burial Rites (2013) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: I was worst to the one I loved best.
FROM: Laxdela Saga, (1250), Book, Icelander
- Cruachan (1)
- IN: The Good People (2016) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: There was an old woman and she lived in the woods
Weile, weile, waile;
There was an old woman and she lived in the woods
Down by the river Saile
She had a baby three months old
Weile, weile, waile
She had a baby three months old
Down by the river Saile;
She had a penknife long and sharp
Weile, weile, waile
She had a penknife long and sharp
Down by the river Saile;
She stuck the penknife in the baby's heart
Weile, weile, waile
She stuck the penknife in the baby's heart
Down by the river Saile;
Three hard knocks came knocking at the door
Weile, weile, waile
Three hard knocks came knocking at the door
Down by the river Saile;
'Are you the woman that killed the child?'
weile weile weile
'Are you the woman that killed the child?'
down by the river Saile?'
The rop was pulled and she got hung,
weile weile weile.
The rope was pulled and she got hung
down by the river Saile.
And that was the end of the woman in the woods,
weile weile weile.
And that was the end of the woman in the woods
down by the river Saile.
FROM: The Old Woman in the Woods, (2006), Song, Ireland
- W. B. Yeats (1)
- IN: The Good People (2016) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our
own unreason may be better than another's truth?
for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls,
and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make
their sweet honey. Come into the world again,
wild bees, wild bees!
FROM: The Celtic Twilight, (1893), Poem, Ireland