Faerie-House
In 1586, Edmund Spenser obtained possession of Kilcolman castle in Ireland and the scenery of this environment was often mentioned in his great work, The Faerie Queene, one of the greatest epic poems of the Elizabethan age. Lore says that mushrooms lined the perimeter of faerie circles where such creatures gathered to sing and dance at night and one wonders: did the poet wander from his doorstep one fine day while the sun was high over the green hills of Éire and come across a scene like this? Did he imagine this fertile haven to be the realm of the enchanting Faerie Queen, Gloria’na? Sit on the hill beside it and write his careful iambs, composing into our literary culture the sprites and faeries we have come to love?
I suspect it was a scene exactly like this upon which his imagination settled, full of life and teeming with possibility. Yes, a faerie might well live in this place.
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