UH 40
Unicorn Hunt Ch 40
[edit | edit source]Plot Summary
[edit | edit source]Dates
[edit | edit source]August 16 - 22, 1470
- “It was fifteen days to Mount Sinai. His father said he wanted to do it in nine.” (Vintage p 517)
- “They had travelled at racing-camel-pace for seven days” (Vintage p 529)
Fictional Characters
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- Tobias Beventini
- Nicholas vander Poele
- Gelis van Borselen (referenced)
- Ochoa de Marchena (referenced)
- Henry St Pol (referenced)
- Katelina van Borselen (referenced)
- Jordan de Fleury (referenced)
Non-Fictional Characters
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- Jan Adorne
- Anselm Adorne
- Emperor Justinian of the Eastern Christian Church (referenced)
- Sultan Qayt Bey (referenced)
- Katelijne Sersanders
- Duke Sforza of Milan (referenced)
- Duke Charles of Burgundy (referenced)
- James, Lord Hamilton (referenced)
- James III of Scotland (referenced)
- Reyphin
- John of Kinloch
- Lambert
- Brother Lorenzo
- Emir of Tor (referenced)
- David de Salmeton (referenced)
- John le Grant
- Ludovico da Bologna
Locations
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- Alexandria
- Cairo (referenced)
- Holy Land (referenced)
- Sinai
- St Catherine’s monastery
- The Levant (referenced)
- Birkat al-Hadid (referenced)
- Garden of Balm (referenced)
- Suez
- Aqaba (referenced)
- Red Sea
- Middle Sea (referenced)
- Damietta (referenced)
- Scotland (referenced)
- England (referenced)
- Black Sea (referenced)
- St Sabas (referenced)
- Catalonia (referenced)
- Sicily (referenced)
- Tor (referenced)
- Tyrol (referenced)
Literature
[edit | edit source]- Bon regime sanitatis (song by Charles d’Orleans)
Other References
[edit | edit source]- the whipping-in
- Moses and the Burning Bush
- Moses on Mount Sinai (Ten Commandments)
- St Catherine
- Para tutum
- Bedouin
- A warning such as the Scythians sent to the Persians (story by Herodotus about Darius of Persia)
- En defaut de mieux
- Moses and the daughter of Jethro
- Nicholas in the cisterns swirling “as a branch might be bumped in a mill-sluice” references Francis’s mill accident in Checkmate. Psalm 128 is also quoted here in CM 5.7
Quotes from Dunnett
[edit | edit source]- “I’ll find out whether [the child] exists or not. In ten minutes. You needn’t be there.” - Tobie to Nicholas (Vintage p 524)
- “Sky, mountains and plain lay soundless before him: light, colour and scent all wrapped in absolute silence. The mountains leaned, humble under their heaven.” - p 525 Vintage, describing Sinai