Silkies and Ke/pies, over the sea, beyond Skye, to a Nova Scotia …. Down ice green fjords of Scandinavia, and away to the Land of the Eagle, then sailed the Ellefolk, in their terrible-prowed lqngships: the Nissen and the Tom- tra, those hairy farm-fairies; Grims from the stone towers; squat, squinting Wood- and River-Trolls; and, in the bows, faces set to the cold salt spray, the Elves themselves, yellow hair streaming in the wind, blue-gray eyes fixed on the far horizon. Of all the folk of Jotunheim, only some of the Koboldes stayed behind, and these proud Tree-Fairies were soon and forever turned to wooden playthings for the children of Man. Guided on its stately way by the Rhine Maidens, a great fleet bearing away strong-thewed Dwarfs from the mines, plump and hairy Witchtln from the fields, the handsome Wilden Fraulein from the marshes, and red-capped Hutchen from the Black Forest forsook Germany and her neighbors for the New World, far across the sea. Then from the East, from the Far Marches, from the wide snowy Steppes and boundless fertile plains of Russia-travelled the native Fair Folk: Vazily, Poleviki, Domivye, and Vi/y. The Leshy abandoned the forest tops of Tatary, the Rusyalki rose up from the river beds, and all followed the Forest Fathers and Moss Maidens across the winter prairie to the Black Sea shore and onto waiting ships. Together they emigrated, away to the West. Cradling Italy, calm as the clouded moon, dark as
