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• Dan: One of two children acting out a small play based on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. They are performing to Three Cows on Midsummer Eve. Their theatre was in a field, the stage was inside a fairy Ring. After three runs of the play Puck appears.
• Una: Dan's sister and the other member of the acting troupe putting on a play in the field.
• Puck: A character in Shaespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. He appears to Dan and Una as they are acting out their version of the play. So begins a series of stories and adventures for Dan and Una. Also know as: Robin Goodfellow, Nick o' Lincoln, and Lob-lie-by-the-fire
• Richard: Lived in the time of knights, was a landlord under De Aquila, was brought to the present by Puck and shared several stories about his life with Dan and Una.
• Hugh: Sir Richard's neighboring landlord, knight and fellow adventurer on his pilgrimage.
• De Aquila: Overlord of Richard and Hugh. He lives at Pevensey.
• Gilbert: Unscrupulous scribe who keeps the records at De Aquila's Manor.
• Fulke: His name really isn't Fulke, but Sir Richard uses that name to identify him as the story he tells about him is an evil one and Richard had promised to keep the real name secret.
• Witta: Captain of the ship in which Richard and Hugh travel to Africa and ultimately make their fortune in gold.
• Hobden: Old Hobden the hedger is a friend of Dan's and Una's
• Maximus: The great General of Britain.
• Parnesius: A young man, born with connections, who wanted to be a military leader. He got his wish, but stood up to Maximus when he told him to kill a soldier who had talked back to him.
• Pertinax: Parnesius' best friend. The served in the military together, stationed on the Wall
• Old Allo: A Pict with one eye. Taught Parnesius and Pertinax how to hunt wolves and great red deer in the Pict country.
• Sir Harry Dawe aka Hal: An artist, architect and builder.
• Stavanger: Mentioned in the poem: Thorkild's Song
• Andrew Barton: A pirate
• Thorkild: Add a description of this character.
• John Collins: Owner of a foundry where guns for the King's ships are being made.
• Sebastian: Representative sent to collect the guns.
• Father Roger: Taught Hal how to draw and make letters.
• Cæsar: Emperor of the Roman Empire
• Sir John Pelham: A justice
• Bee Boy: Hobden's son; not quite right of mind, but he can do anything with bees.
• Tom Shoesmith: Tall with grey whiskers, clear blue eyes, and a brown face. He tells the tale of Dymchurch Flit.
• Robin: A Pharisees (fairy) from the marsh.
• Widow Whitgift: Lived near the marsh. Gave her two sons leave to sail the Pharisees to France.
• Kadmiel: A Jew living at the time King John signed the Magna Charta at Runnymede in 1215.
• Sir Huon: One of the People of the Hills. He succeeds Oberon as King of Fairyland.
• Lady Esclairmonde: Sir Huon's Lady
• Thor: The Norse god of sky and thunder; Thor's day survives as Thursday
• Boy: A human boy born on the far side of Cold Iron. The boy is an orphan left on the doorstep of St Pancras' Church, taken by Puck and left outside the Hill where he is taken in by Sir Huon and Lady Esclairmonde.

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• “'Land and governance belong by right to young men.' Sir Richard was talking to himself. 'It would have broken their hearts if we had taken back our Manors. They made us great welcome, but we could see—Hugh and I could see—that our day was done. I was a cripple and he a one-armed man. No! He shook his head. 'And therefore'—he raised his voice—'we rode back to Pevensey.'”

  Sir Richard

• “Thus it fell out that we were rich beyond belief, and lonely. And lonely!”

  Sir Richard

• “'And what did you do afterwards?' said Una. 'We talked together of times past. That is all men can do when they grow old, little maid.'”

  Sir Richard

• “'Without a horse and a dog, and a friend, man would perish. The Gods gave me all three, and there is no gift like friendship. Remember this'—Parnesius turned to Dan—'when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make,'”

  Parnesius

• “Aha! There's more under my hat besides hair!”

  Tom Shoesmith

• “Yes, the Moors are cruel, but at least their learned men dare to think.”

  Kadmiel

• “I stood before Kings. I have been a brother to Princes and a companion to beggars, and I have walked between the living and the dead. There was no profit in it. I did not find my Kingdom.”

  Kadmiel

• “Yet all my wanderings had shown me one sure thing, which is, that a King without money is like a spear without a head. He cannot do much harm.”

  Kadmiel

• “So I sailed with Elias to the darkness and the cruelty of Bury in England, where there are no learned men. How can a man be wise if he hate?”

  Kadmiel

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Wall
• Old England
• Rome
• Pevensey
• Britain
• Gaul
• Saxons
• France
• Santlache
• Borkum
• Israel
• Spain
• Kadmiel
• Anderida
• London
• Lewes

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Rudyard Kipling (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Donald MacKenzie (Editor)
2. Andrew Rutherford (Preface)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.8

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics › Kipling, Rudyard
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Kipling, Rudyard
• Books › Teens › History & Historical Fiction › Historical Fiction
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction