Are those legends still alive or did they die with the war, or with the people who told them? And what if we made our own mental ‘many-legended island’ to retire to?
‘I slept in the village of Grein that night, just upstream from a wooded and many-legended island.’
Source: Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts (London: Penguin Books, 1977), p. 152
