*

“Is that it?” says Wen, somewhat nonplussed.

“More or less.”

“Well, there should be more, surely?”

“Oh, but there is more, much more, but we are here only concerned with giving a skeletal outline of what was once the pre-eminent Myth of Albion, and covering the bases, and basis, of the Rapunzel story.”

“Pre-eminent, eh?”

“Pre-eminent.”

“How much more?”

“Let’s see now, there is a prequel which relates how the three brothers built the King of Castle-Hill’s castle.”

“Okaay, I can just about see how that works.”

“There are a couple of topographical episodes relating the king’s sojourn with the wondrous cow and the Thorn-Children falling one by one from the coracle.”

“Place-name Dreamings?”

“Precisely, a lot of the resting places of the cow became sacred wells and springs.”

“That’s beautiful.”

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