Gramaryeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Adopted by English author T. H. White as a name for Britain in his book The Once and Future King (1958; based on shorter works published between 1938 and 1941), in allusion to the line “Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye” from the Rudyard Kipling poem “Puck’s Song” (1906). The final stanza of the poem, italicized below, appears as an epigraph in White’s book. Kipling was using the word gramarye in the sense “magic”, but White jocularly reinterpreted it as a place-name.

Trackway and Camp and City lost,
     Salt Marsh where now is corn;
Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,
     And so was England born!

She is not any common Earth,
     Water or wood or air,
But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye,
     Where you and I will fare.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈɡɹæməɹi/
• ハイフネーション: Gra‧ma‧rye

固有名詞

Gramarye

1. (literary, Arthurian, rare) The island of Britain. [from 1930s]
   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter XV, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, part I (The Sword in the Stone), page 137:

     You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye, when the rosy barons ate with their fingers, and had peacocks served before them with all their tail feathers streaming, or boars' heads with the tusks stuck in again— […]

   • 1977, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 18, in The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King, Austin, Tx.: University of Texas Press, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 108–109:

     When they had reached the top, he sat down puffing, and the old man sat beside him to admire the view. It was England that came out slowly, as the late moon rose: his royal realm of Gramarye. Stretched at his feet, she spread herself away into the remotest north, leaning towards the imagined Hebrides. She was his homely land.

   • 1999, T[homas] A[rchibald] Barron, “Great Power”, in The Mirror of Merlin (The Lost Years of Merlin; book 4), New York, N.Y.: Philomel Books, →ISBN; 1st Scholastic edition, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic, November 2001, →ISBN, page 170:

     […] "She comes from the same place I do." / "And where is that?" / The boy's voice dropped to a whisper. "From a country called Wales, part of the isle my master calls Gramarye. And from a time … in the future." / […] "That must have required great power." / "Yes." Even beneath the soot, I could see his cheeks flush. "But it's not a power that belongs to any person. It belongs to the Mirror. That's how I came here. And that's how I'm going to take you back to Gramarye."

   • 2017, Helen Conrad-O'Briain, “Bookland: Connie Willis’s Construction of England”, in Mark J. P. Wolf, editor, Revisiting Imaginary Worlds: A Subcreation Studies Anthology, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 318:

     This is an England of the literary imagination. It goes beyond bricolage; it is the mimesis of a book whose own internal mimesis is the result of the organic growth of a Bookland England. It is the Gramarye which, for most of [Connie] Willis's readers, began as [Geoffrey] Chaucer's pilgrims rode down Watling Street.

関連する語

• gramarye

参照

アナグラム

• Margaery, marryage