'Watership Down', Chapter 1 (complete): The Notice Board *FREE AUDIOBOOK, UNABRIDGED*
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2024
- Part One, Chapter 1: The Noticeboard
Adams includes footnotes at the end of some chapters, explaining key terms in the world of the rabbits.
Fiver's name:
1. Rabbits can count up to four. Any number above four is hrair-“a lot,” or “a thousand.” Thus they say U Hrair-“The Thousand”-to mean, collectively, all the enemies (or elil, as they call them) of rabbits-fox, stoat, weasel, cat, owl, man, etc. There were probably more than five rabbits in the litter when Fiver was born, but his name, Hrairoo, means “Little Thousand”-i.e., the little one of a lot or, as they say of pigs, “the runt.”
The 'Owsla'
2. Nearly all warrens have an Owsla, or group of strong or clever rabbits-second-year or older-surrounding the Chief Rabbit and his doe and exercising authority. Owslas vary. In one warren, the Owsla may be the band of a warlord: in another, it may consist largely of clever patrollers or garden-raiders. Sometimes a good storyteller may find a place; or a seer, or intuitive rabbit. In the Sandleford warren at this time, the Owsla was rather military in character (though, as will be seen later, not so military as some).
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'Watership Down' by Richard Adams
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