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THE ROOM OF THE HARPERS
"To the east of them I beheld another ennead. Nine branchy, curly manes
upon them. Nine grey, floating mantles about them: nine pins of gold in
their mantles. Nine rings of crystal round their arms. A thumb-ring of
gold round each man's thumb: an ear-tie of gold round each man's ear: a
torque of silver round each man's throat. Nine bags with golden faces
above them on the wall. Nine rods of white silver in their hands. Liken
thou them."
"I know those," quoth Fer rogain. "They are the king's nine harpers,
with their nine harps above them: Side and Dide, Dulothe and Deichrinne,
Caumul and Cellgen, Ol and Olene and Olchoi. A man will perish by
each of them."
THE ROOM OF THE CONJURORS
"I saw another trio on the dais. Three bedgowns girt about them.
Four-cornered shields in their hands, with bosses of gold upon them.
Apples of silver they had, and small inlaid spears."
"I know them," says Fer rogain. "Cless and Clissine and Clessamun, the
king's three conjurers.
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