Editing The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (section)

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The legend of [[Alderley Edge#The Wizard of the Edge|The Wizard of Alderley Edge]] revolves around a king and his sleeping knights who rest beneath the hill, waiting for the day when they must awake to save the land. Each knight had a steed, a pure white horse.  However, at the time the knights were placed under their enchanted slumber, the wizard whose job it was to guard the king and his knights found that they lacked one horse.  One day, he encountered a local farmer taking a pure white mare to sell at the market.  The wizard bought the horse, offering the farmer many rich jewels taken from the king's secret store of treasure under the Edge in payment.<ref name="Philip 1981. p. 23"/>

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|quote     = "As I turned toward writing, which is partially intellectual in its function, but is primarily intuitive and emotional in its execution, I turned towards that which was numinous and emotional in me, and that was the legend of King Arthur Asleep Under the Hill. It stood for all that I'd had to give up in order to understand what I'd had to give up. And so my first two books, which are very poor on characterization because I was somehow numbed in that area, are very strong on imagery and landscape, because the landscape I had inherited along with the legend."
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