Shortest Day (38 page)
Authors: Jane Langton
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Many of the verses used as epigraphs in this book are taken from songs and carols in
The Christmas Revels Songbook
, compiled by Nancy and John Langstaff (David R. Godine, 1985). Excerpts from John Langstaff's mummer's play,
Saint George and the Dragon
(Atheneum, 1973), appear as some of the lines spoken by fictional characters acting as mummers and as a number of epigraphs and are used with his permission. An excerpt from Susan Cooper's poem, “The Shortest Day,” passages from her dramatized version of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
, and her words to the carol “Sing We Noel” and the song “OrientisPartibus” are used with her permission. Verse from “Love Is Come Again” (“Now the green blade riseth ⦔), words by J. M. C. Crum, from
The Oxford Book of Carols
. © Oxford University Press 1928. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.
copyright © 1995 by Jane Langton
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