Gramarye

gramarye English 2019 April 23 Etymology Adopted by English author T. H. White as a name for Britain in his book The Once and Future King (1958; based on shorter works published between 1938 and 1941), in allusion to the line “Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye” from the Rudyard Kipling poem “Puck’s Song” (1906).Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Puck’s Song Puck of Pook’s Hill New York, N.Y. Doubleday, Page & Company 1906 2 https://archive.org/stream/puckpookshill00rackgoog#page/n19/mode/1up/ 542890. The final stanza of the poem, italicized below, appears as an epigraph in White’s book. Kipling was using the word en gramarye in the sense “magic”, but White jocularly reinterpreted it as a place-name. Trackway and Camp and City lost,      Salt Marsh where now is corn; Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,      And so was England born! She is not any common Earth,      Water or wood or air, But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye,      Where you and I will fare. Pronunciation en /ˈɡɹæməɹi/ RP,GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Gramarye.wav Southern England en Gra ma rye Proper noun en literary Arthurian rare The island of Britain. from 1930s en T[erence] H[anbury] White XV w:The Once and Future King New York, N.Y. w:G. P. Putnam's Sons 1958 part I (The Sword in the Stone) 137 https://archive.org/stream/oncefuturekingth00whit#page/137/mode/1up/ 978-0-399-10597-5 You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye, when the rosy barons ate with their fingers, and had peacocks served before them with all their tail feathers streaming, or boars' heads with the tusks stuck in again— en T[erence] H[anbury] White 18 The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King Austin, Tx. w:University of Texas Press 1977 2011 108–109 https://books.google.com/books?id=oagVXEFEW0oC&pg=PA109 978-0-292-70718-4 When they had reached the top, he sat down puffing, and the old man sat beside him to admire the view. It was England that came out slowly, as the late moon rose: his royal realm of Gramarye. Stretched at his feet, she spread herself away into the remotest north, leaning towards the imagined Hebrides. She was his homely land. en T[homas] A[rchibald] Barron Great Power The Mirror of Merlin The Lost Years of Merlin book 4 New York, N.Y. w:Philomel Books 1999 978-0-399-23455-2 1st Scholastic New York, N.Y. Scholastic November 2001 170 https://archive.org/stream/mirrorofmerlinbo00scho#page/170/mode/1up/ 978-0-439-38359-2 "She comes from the same place I do." / "And where is that?" / The boy's voice dropped to a whisper. "From a country called Wales, part of the isle my master calls Gramarye. And from a time … in the future." / "That must have required great power." / "Yes." Even beneath the soot, I could see his cheeks flush. "But it's not a power that belongs to any person. It belongs to the Mirror. That's how I came here. And that's how I'm going to take you back to Gramarye." en Helen Conrad-O'Briain Bookland: Connie Willis’s Construction of England Mark J. P. Wolf Revisiting Imaginary Worlds: A Subcreation Studies Anthology New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon. w:Routledge 2017 318 https://books.google.com/books?id=MTQlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA318 978-1-138-94205-9 This is an England of the literary imagination. It goes beyond bricolage; it is the mimesis of a book whose own internal mimesis is the result of the organic growth of a Bookland England. It is the Gramarye which, for most of [Connie] Willis's readers, began as [Geoffrey] Chaucer's pilgrims rode down Watling Street. Related terms en gramarye References Anagrams en aaegmrry Margaery marryage