The Anathemata
The Lady of the Pool (continued)
As him, the skipper of the Margaron, sister-ship to the Troy Queen, but slighter entranced, and in the water is the wilder swan:
David Jones notes
additional notes
‘I had named the two vessels “The Margaron” and “The Troy Queen” in honour of Priness Margaret and our reigning monarch’ (DJ, quoted in Hague p. 170).
entranced: the entrance is the bow of the ship, or the form of of the fore-body under the water line. The implication is that the more elegant the design of the vessel entrance, the harder it will be to direct her steering (see the first two lines of the next page, where ‘scantlings’ refers to the small pieces of timber which form the entrance in the finer ship).
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Elen now turns to the third lover that she wants to talk about. This is a lengthy digression: she returns to her mason lover on page 159.