Elf Killers (32 page)

Elven seventh naming day = 99 birthdays (years)

Elves - Elves, Elven (Middle English) (Archaic
             
Modern Niarg)

Elves -
Homo sapiens ginkgoliberiensis R
., a race of
             
humans indigenous to the Maidenhair

             
Woods of the Eternal Mountains of the Eastern
             
Continent, characterized by ivory colored

             
skin, eyes with various colors of irises
             
highlighted with opalescent flashes and sparkles,

             
pointed ears and hair which is either silky
             
absolute black, absolute black with varying

             
degrees of iridescence or metallic shades of
             
silvery grey, gold or copper or an almost

             
phosphorescent matte rust red. They are highly
             
intuitive and are attuned to their natural

             
surroundings and are predisposed to magical
             
skills. They have life spans scores of times

             
as long as those of the rest of mankind.

eruption - bruchtadh (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic
             
Elven)

evil spirit - gnydy (trollish)

eyas - a hawk which has been freshly brought from
             
the nest

eye - fnanar (trollish)

fart - trefnifyrd (trollish)

farting - scaoil broim asat (Jutish Elven and Old
             
Gwaelic Elven)

fat hole - veyfnafan nipsnaf n. (trollish)

filth - gyrn (trollish)

Fire Sprites -
Homo sapiens luciferestris L
. a
             
diminutive and highly luminescent human whose

             
melanin has been replaced by luciferin.

first - arrdsey (trollish)

First-father - Arrdseyphnyrpheyfne (trollish)

flat - snyrfuynipryoyayi (trollish)

fool - dyyp (trollish)

fringed maidenhair -
Ginkgo fimbriflabella R
., is a
             
deciduous gymnosperm that lives in waste

             
and burnt over areas where woods meets
             
grassland. It seldom grows taller than 35 to 40

             
feet. Its leaves are deeply lobed with closely
             
spaced fingers, scarcely broader than one

             
mm, giving the tree its name. Its wood is almost
             
white and very soft, and it seldom lives

             
more than 65 to 75 years. Along with plums,
             
crabapples and hawthorns, it is amongst the

             
first woody species of trees to invade after a
             
section of forest is completely burnt off by

             
fire.

furlong - 220 yards, 1/8th mile

goat - drfnyrifyrri (trollish)

grass - ntnrof (trollish)

great - -dyr (trollish)

hail - nyrruy (trollish)

halt, stop it - nyrvyrnirrtrad (trollish)

Help me! - Phnyrsyoy adyroorr! (trollish)

Hey! - Nyrruy! (trollish)

Human -
Homo sapiens sapiens R
., in our usage is a
             
race and therefore is capitalized, just as one

             
would Indian or White. Here, human, which
             
means
Homo sapiens R
., includes such races

             
as Human and Elf and Fairy.

it is filthy - nigspoonfi (trollish)

it is roasted - pyrntey (trollish)

it is ugly - nigspoonfi (trollish)

It's time to eat - fndapffnyjyoyoynf (trollish)

jesses - strips of light but very tough leather, 12"
             
long which always remain on each leg of a

             
strike falcon

killers - marfora (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic
             
Elven)

kill him - pirrfey (trollish)

large - -dyr (trollish)

lookout - faire (Jutish Elven)

lyra - precursor of the rebec which was the ancestor
             
of the fiddle which in turn was the

             
forerunner of the violin

magick - archaic spelling used here to mean
             
specifically: a healing spell or conjuration

magicks - archaic spelling used here to mean
             
specifically: an assemblage of healing spells or

             
conjurations

maidenhair fern -
Adiantum capillus-veneris R.

maidenhair red deer -
Odocoileus rufi-ginkgus R
.

maidenhair tree -
Ginkgo biloba ingentissima R
. (The
             
Sacred Maidenhair of Oilean Gairdin is a

             
G. biloba ingentissima
) are broad leaved
             
deciduous gymnosperms. These are the tallest

             
living trees on earth with mature specimens
             
towering from 375 to over 400 feet. The

             
largest individual known, living near the bottom
             
of the slopes of the Pitmaster Gorge in

             
the Maidenhair Woods, measures 427 feet and is
             
estimated to be well over 7000 years

             
old. They are indigenous to the Maidenhair
             
Woods of the western Eastern Continent

             
where they are the dominant tree, forming the
             
canopies in the deep valleys and steep

             
slopes of the Eternal Mountains up to about 6500
             
feet. They are amongst the oldest living

             
things on earth with some trees having nearly
             
10,000 annual rings, though the record for

             
age is held by the very much smaller blue
             
maidenhair,
Ginkgo cyanophyllum R.
, of the

             
mountain tops and tree line.

man - dyrney (trollish)

manure - ganf (trollish)

meat - adpyrfn (trollish)

mom - fmoo (trollish)

mother tree - see silver maidenhair

my people - phnyrfndyrney (trollish)

naming day - see Elven naming day

no - duda (trollish)

oh - jyga (trollish)

outlaw - phnyrphaf (trollish)

Phororhacos longissimus R
. - see 'strike falcon'

picture catcher unicorns - a breed of unicorn derived
             
from the short robust Douglas unicorn by

             
the Elves of the Maidenhair Woods on the
             
Eastern Continent more than a thousand years

             
ago. At first they were known as terraing pictiur 
             
(Jutish Elven or Old Gwaelic Elven)

             
because of their ability to receive and respond to
             
mental images projected by certain

             
gifted Elves. Though about the same height at
             
the withers as the Douglas, these terraing

             
pictiur were quite gracile, almost deer-like,
             
instead of  having the Douglas's robust build,

             
yet were still capable of being ridden for short
             
distances. None made it across the ocean

             
with the exodus of King Neron. By time of the
             
reign of Queen Spitemorta, they had

             
become known as tayreyder jalloo (Gwaelic
             
Elven) and had been reduced by breeding to

             
the size of a greyhound, no longer capable of
             
bearing a rider, but very good at delivering

             
messages over long distances upon the giving of
             
wordless commands.

plant - gnyrr (trollish)

professor - olloo (Gwaelic Elven)

prostitute - fnarryirrny n. (trollish)

purple-rib -
Caprimulgus noctivociferus-profundus
             
R.
, a pigeon sized nightjar of the Maidenhair

             
Forest with a call like that of a whip-poor-will
             
only very much more deep and sonorous

Quiet! - Yafn fynf! (trollish)

rectum - fnayirgy (trollish)

red maidenhair -
Ginkgo erythrofolium R
. is a
             
deciduous broadleaved gymnosperm living

             
throughout the Maidenhair Woods in the Eternal
             
Mountains of the Eastern Continent

             
where it overwhelmingly predominates at
             
elevations below 8000 feet. It ranges in height

             
from sixty to ninety feet, the taller trees
             
occurring in low places. It has the interesting

             
ability to thrive under the canopy of the
             
maidenhair trees,
Ginko biloba ingentissima R.

             
where the two species overlap. The red bottom
             
surfaces of its leaves are thought to enable

             
it to thrive in low light conditions. Its dried
             
leaves bear alkaloids, which when chewed by

             
the Elves like tobacco, steady their nerves.

rescue flax - lion tarrthail (Jutish Elven) originally,
             
lhieen livreys (Gwaelic Elven) in later times,

             
also Strah flax, 
Phormium tenax R
., is not any
             
sort of true flax at all, but a succulent

             
monocot, distantly related to yucca and agave,
             
and having the same general appearance

             
except that its inflorescences are made up of
             
brilliant red flowers.

rock - carraig (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven)

rod - (perch, pole) 5 1/2yds.

rot - lobhadh (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven)

rufter hood - hood used for training strike falcons 

rump - fnadirrfanf (trollish)

seed - fnanar (trollish)

seventh naming day - see Elven seventh naming day

shirt for a man or shift for a woman - leine (Jutish
             
Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven)

shit - cac (Jutish Elven and Old Gwaelic Elven)

shit - vyrgan (trollish)

shivering owl -
Otus asio-ploratus R
.