Word: grane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...
Islandia lay south of the equator. It was the southernmost tip of the Karain Continent. There is even a map of it (see cut). Its seasons were Windorn (winter), Grane (spring), Sorn (summer) and Leaves (fall). It had a climate, a terrain, a history and a literature all its own, all of which Austin Wright invented. Its inhabitants wore what the English of that period would have called "rational dress" (knickers of navy blue broadcloth were correct for men), and their furnishings and architecture rather suggest the tastes of Frank Lloyd Wright (no kin to the author...