ships, where once he conquered Slid. And the gods know well that while
Tintaggon stands They and Their world are safe; and whether Slid shall
one day smite Tintaggon is hidden among the secrets of the sea.




A LEGEND OF THE DAWN


When the worlds and All began the gods were stern and old and They saw
the Beginning from under eyebrows hoar with years, all but Inzana,
Their child, who played with the golden ball. Inzana was the child of
all the gods. And the law before the Beginning and thereafter was that
all should obey the gods, yet hither and thither went all Pegana's gods
to obey the Dawnchild because she loved to be obeyed.

It was dark all over the world and even in Pegana, where dwell the
gods, it was dark when the child Inzana, the Dawn, first found her
golden ball. Then running down the stairway of the gods with tripping
feet, chalcedony, onyx, chalcedony, onyx, step by step, she cast her
golden ball across the sky. The golden ball went bounding up the sky,
and the Dawnchild with her flaring hair stood laughing upon the
stairway of the gods, and it was day. So gleaming fields below saw the
first of all the days that the gods have destined. But towards evening
certain mountains, afar and aloof, conspired together to stand between
the world and the golden ball and to wrap their crags about it and to
shut it from the world, and all the world was darkened with their plot.
And the Dawnchild up in Pegana cried for her golden ball. Then all the
gods came down the stairway right to Pegana's gate to see what ailed