The Gondal Saga

Abstract

In the following article the authors piece together the Gondal story from the fragments of its history that have survived in Emily Brontë' poems. Most of the poems quoted come from the manuscript note-book in the British Museum; but two of them, “Alcona, in its changing mood,” and a portion of the “Companions” poem, previously regarded as undecipherable, are here published for the first time, and are given their place in the legend. The manuscript of the “Alcona” poem is in the Bonnell Collection at the Parsonage Museum.