Fennario

Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of the formidable QuasarDragon] @Book View Cafe: "Fennario" by Sarah Smith and Resa Nelson (1993).

July 2009 2009

Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of the formidable QuasarDragon] @Book View Cafe: "Fennario" by Sarah Smith and Resa Nelson (1993).

Free Fiction and Stuff for 7/24/09 2009

So Hunter's "Fennario" is a rural, wooded, marshy region of the imagination, which bears not particular relation to the actual geographic "Fenario" referred to in the "Peggy-O" folk song lyric and its variants.

The Annotated "Dire Wolf" Robert Hunter 1978

"Fennario", then, was made up as a four syllable variation of "Fyvie-O".

The Annotated "Dire Wolf" Robert Hunter 1978

Incredibly, then, Trist goes on to say that "Fennario" is a good word if you need four syllables whereas a word like "Fyvie-O" would be a good three syllable word.

The Annotated "Dire Wolf" Robert Hunter 1978

As is typical of folksongs, the place name given in the Dead version as "Fennario" is "Fernario" in Sharp's version.

Peggy-O Traditional 1973

As is typical of folksongs, the place name given in the Dead version as "Fennario" is "Fernario" in Sharp's version.

Peggy-O Traditional 1973

Fennario, the Soldier and the Sailor, Billy DeLyon, the Lion's (Lyon's?)

The WELL: Notes and queries 2005

In contrast, the singer of "Dire Wolf" may be at home, but home is located in the wilderness, "In the timbers of Fennario."

Home, by Wally Bubelis Wally Bubelis 2005

In the back-wash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire The dire wolf collects his due while the boys sing round the fire

The WELL: Dire Wolf Robert Hunter 2003