EN009.18 Frya
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D. At Three Burgs
3. Primordial Mothers
Frya
9.18 Frya was white, like snow in the blush of dawn, and the blue of her eyes surpassed that of the rainbow.
Beautiful Frya! Like rays of the midday sun shone her hair, fine as gossamer strands.
Adept Frya! If she parted her lips, the birds fell silent and the leaves became still.
Formidable Frya! Under the force of her gaze, the lion would lie down at her feet and the viper hold back its venom.
Immaculate Frya! Her food was honey and her drink was the dew, gathered from the bosom of flowers.
[010] Bright Frya! The first thing she taught her children was self-mastery, the second was love of virtue. And when they grew up, she gave them to understand the value of freedom, for, she said: “Without freedom, all other virtues will only help make you into slaves, bringing eternal shame upon your descent.”
Mild Frya! Never would she let metal be delved from Earth for her own benefit, but when it was done, it was for the good of all.
Most fortunate Frya! As the stars swarm around Earth, so her children flocked around her.
Wise Frya! When she had raised her children to the seventh generation, she summoned them all to Fleeland, and gave them her Tex, saying: “Let this be your guide, so that it shall never go ill with you.”
Exalted Frya! When she had spoken, Earth throbbed like Wralda’s sea. Fleeland’s surface sank beneath her feet, the sky turned black and rain fell ceaselessly. And when her children looked to see their mother, she was already on her watch-star. But finally, thunder spoke from the clouds and lightning scrawled upon the firmament: “Watch!”
Far-seeing Frya! The land whence she had ascended [011] was now a stream and, except for her Tex, all that had come from her hands was overwhelmed.
Dutiful children! When they came to themselves again, they made this high mound, built the burg thereon, and upon its walls they wrote the Tex. And in order that all should be able to find it, they called the surrounding land ‘Texland’. Therefore shall it remain as long as Earth is Earth.
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Chapter D: Sandbach 1876