GOK 4.3.1
Game of Kings – Part 4 Chapter 3 Section 1 – Strange Refuge
[edit | edit source]Plot Summary
[edit | edit source]Dates
[edit | edit source]Saturday 23 June - Monday 16 July 1548
Characters
[edit | edit source]Fictional Characters
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- Francis Crawford of Lymond
- Richard Crawford, 3rd Baron Culter
- Stokes, one of Tom Erskine's men
- Gideon Somerville
- Kate Somerville
- Adam Acheson (referenced)
- Sybilla Crawford, the Dowager Lady Culter (referenced)
- Mariotta Crawford, Lady Culter (referenced)
- Patey Liddell (referenced)
- Christian Stewart (referenced)
- Turkey Matthew (referenced)
- Eloise Crawford (referenced)
- Gavin Crawford, 2nd Baron Culter (referenced)
- their grandfather (referenced)
Non-Fictional Characters
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- Thomas Erskine
- Sir James Wilford
- William Grey
- Lord Wharton
- Will Scott of Kincurd
- Nicholas Durand, Sieur de Villegagne
- Thomas Palmer
- Sir Robert Bowes
- Don Pedro de Gamboa
- Sir John Ellerkar
- Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch
- Sir William Cockburn
- Henry, Lord Wharton's son (referenced)
- Matthew Stewart, Earl of Lennox (referenced)
- his Most Christian Majesty (referenced)
- the Protector (referenced)
- Mary Queen of Scots (referenced)
- Francis, Dauphin of France (referenced)
- Lady Elizabeth Douglas (referenced)
- Sir George Douglas (referenced)
- Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (referenced)
- Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury (referenced)
- Frederick II of Denmark (referenced)
- Henri II (referenced)
- Ned Dudley (referenced)
- James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (referenced)
Locations
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- Hexham
- A dovecote near Hexham
- A quiet gorge near Hexham
- Berwick
- Haddington
- Dumbarton
- Edinburgh (referenced)
- Threave (referenced)
- Midculter (referenced)
- Linlithgow (referenced)
- Stirling (referenced)
- Paris (referenced)
- Leith (referenced)
- Coldingham (referenced)
- Pease Burn (referenced)
- Hume (referenced)
- Linton Bridge (referenced)
- East Linton (referenced)
- Skirling (referenced)
Literature
[edit | edit source]- And bathe my son in morning milk
- the octogenarian who planted
- Hic turtur gemit ...
- Is this fraternall charitie or furious folie quhat say ye?
- Wo worth your tedyus synne of lechery
- I wyll not daunce
- To my kinsmen I will truly
- Come my friend, my brother most enteere
- bury me at Leibethra where the nightingale sings
Other References
[edit | edit source]- Vice mea viva depelto cuncta novica
- in articulo mortis
- Anatomia Porci
- Avicenna
- the Billy Mire
- Master Haly Abbas Cat
- like the Romans when it rains
- like a corncrake
- cross-eyed as Strabo
- Phoenissae-like tragedies
- calx in a columbarium
- I shall rise and found Nineveh
- elephant's head riding on a rat
- the John-go-to-bed-at-noon era
- mighty Lar
- inverted Robin Hood
- shrikewise
- the graithing of blades and the polishing of gorgets
- malefic glitter
- monts et merveilles
- lentils and salt
- like a Gothamite fisherman
- bellowed like a barghest
- Enoch
- Gadwall duck
- a yard a day like a guinea-worm
- the rights of fuel, feal and divot
- a quick course of Udall
- lingua franca
- Buchanan against Eton
- Loki's serpent
Scots Words and Phrases
[edit | edit source]Quotes from Dunnett
[edit | edit source]- Richard had stooped over his brother and, with excited face, was scanning the engrossing tally of his wounds
- I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
- It was no longer a sanctuary, he knew, but the antechamber to a solitary, a desperately wanted death.
- The graceless, the dissolute, the debauched, the insolent, the exquisite Lymond was obliterated.
Controversies
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