2. A nonexistent person mentioned in a password as part of Siriol’s plans for Mitt’s escape.
Flower of Holand, the boat belonging to Siriol on which Mitt served as apprentice, part of the fishing fleet that sailed regularly from the port of Holand in South Dalemark.
“Follow the Lark,” a song about bird catching whose secret meaning was “overthrow the earls,” composed during the last rebellion before the Great Uprising.
Fort Flenn, the fort at the northern end of Flennpass, in the hands of the North and designed to hold the pass against incursion from the South.
Fredlan, one of the Singers, who traveled in a cart with his family, giving performances all over Dalemark.
“Free as Air and Secret,” a song pretending to be about the delights of the countryside which secretly urged rebellion, composed during an early uprising in South Dalemark.
Free Holanders, one of many secret societies of freedom fighters in the city of Holand in South Dalemark, the one to which Mitt belonged from the age of eight. Its members were mostly fishermen who believed ardently that they should free South Dalemark from the tyranny of the earls but who could seldom agree how this should be done. However, when the Great Uprising finally came about, all the Free Holanders were active in it, both in the fighting and in the reshaping of the government afterward.
Gander, Ganner Sagersson.
Gann, a great hero in the legends from South Dalemark who performed many great feats with his sword, Soulmaker, which was forged for him in secret by the Undying smith Agner while both were captives of the mage-king Heriol. Some stories give Gann as the brother of the witch Cennoreth. See also Gull.
Ganner Sagersson, Lord of Markind in the earldom of the South Dales, who had been betrothed to Lenina Thornsdaughter as a young man. When she left him for Clennen the Singer, Ganner did not, despite pressure from his household, marry anyone else. He seems to have expected Lenina would eventually come back to him (see Bad Luck). Ganner was a just and efficient administrator and one of few Southern lords to survive the Great Uprising untouched. He became regent for the South Dales on the death of Tholian.
Ganter Islands, a cluster of three islands in the Holy Islands.
Gardale, a prosperous valley, town, and earldom in the southeast of North Dalemark, site of the famous Lawschool.
Garlands of apples, corn, and grapes were worn by all those taking part in the Holand Sea Festival and afterward thrown into the sea.
Golden Gentleman, the name given by the King of the Riverlands to the image of the One when he finally found it in the keeping of Robin Clostisdaughter.
Gosler, Ganner Sagersson.
Gown, the distinguishing garment of the mage among the Heathens of Haligland. The gown had spells woven in it which appeared as words and, once put on by a mage, was never taken off, even for washing.
Grand Father, the most respectful of the titles of the One, possibly derived from the fact that most kings and many earls claimed to be descended from the One.
Great Girl (or boy), Lawschool slang for the pupil who comes top in the oral examinations held just before Midsummer.
Great Ones, the term for the Undying in the Holy Islands.
Great Uprising, the name for the countrywide revolution in Dalemark which brought Amil the Great to the throne. The Uprising began in the North around Kernsburgh and, almost simultaneously, in the South in the city of Holand, where a mob stormed the palace of the Earl and then had to fight a bloody battle with soldiers hastily sent by Dermath and Waywold. In the North a number of lords and earls who did not at once side with the rebels were killed or forced to go overseas.
Green roads, the system of highways said to have been made by King Hern. They remained for many centuries, being remarkably well engineered, never steep, despite running through the peaks of North Dalemark, and deliberately grassed for ease of travel by horseback. Many people believed that the Undying made and maintained the green roads, particularly as they continued to exist long after the main centers of civilization had moved down to the valleys. The roads were used as drove roads and by those who wished to travel quickly from dale to dale, until Alk took them over as railways in the reign of Amil the Great.
Gregin, Alk’s valet in Aberath in North Dalemark.
Grittling, the traditional ball game of the Lawschool at Gardale.
Guilds, organized companies of craftsmen and merchants in South Dalemark. Most guilds were formed at the time of the Adon, when the men of many trades realized that the South was becoming increasingly estranged from the North, while the Southern earls grew ever more powerful. Almost every trade, including the Singers, took hasty steps to obtain the protection of the law, usually by petitioning the Adon for a Royal Charter, so that in after years the earls could not easily disband them. The guilds generally kept a low profile, looking after their own members and the widows and orphans of members, training apprentices, educating children, saving money, and paying taxes promptly. They had considerable power and were suspected by the Southern
earls to be quietly financing the various uprisings, though nothing was ever proved. In the North guilds were almost unknown.
Gull, eldest son of Closti the Clam and Anoreth of the Undying, the only one of Closti’s sons to go to the wars. Gull was captured early in the fighting by the Heathen invaders and interrogated by the mage Kankredin, who returned him to his own side little better than an idiot. Gull is thought to be the same person as the Southern hero Gann, and if this is the case, it seems that Gull did eventually recover from Kankredin’s treatment of him.
Guns were invented at the time of the Adon but never much used in North Dalemark. The South used guns extensively, although they were forbidden to all but earls, lords, and their hearthmen. The early guns were clumsy and inaccurate and used mostly for sport until Hobin invented the rifled barrel, which had a spiral groove down the inside that caused the gun to shoot far more accurately. There was then a rush to buy guns. Waywold and Canderack drove a thriving trade smuggling guns to the North.
Gunsmith’s Guild, to which Hobin belonged, together with all other gunsmiths, was a very sober and respectable body of men who, in fact, spent the majority of their meetings laying careful plans for the Great Uprising.
Hadd, the angry and tyrannical Earl of Holand in South Dalemark who, after a lifetime of injustice, quarreling with Earl Henda, terrorizing his family, and overtaxing and suppressing his subjects, was murdered at the Sea Festival by an unknown marksman.
Halain, a spy for the Earl of the South Dales who had infiltrated the freedom fighters in Neathdale in South Dalemark.