1 Who was allowed a gill of beer a day?
2 Who viewed his domain upon Arkindale Side?
3 With what birth defect was Greene’s corvid assassin afflicted?
4 Whose gait was likened to that of a gentleman with exceedingly tight footwear?
5 Where did Muriel go after Gretna, although not changing her name for a further 10 years?
6 To what was the scowling Calvinist minister likened as the marquis knelt on the scaffold?
7 To whom did the ravens bring bread and meat twice daily by one of Jordan’s tributaries?
8 Which worldwide messengers represented thought and memory?
9 What word was uttered from atop the bust of Pallas?
10 Although the rocks remain, what follows?
8 is Huginn and Muninn, Odin’s Ravens – is 9 “Nevermore”?
9 = nevermore, by poe’s raven
so i guess the theme is corvids viz crows, ravens, rooks and so on
Ravens specifically I think.
1. Is the raven in Animal Farm whose name I forget.
3. Is the protagonist of Graham Greene’s A Gun For Sale, a chap called Raven who has a hare lip.
4. Is the raven in Barnaby Rudge, called
Grip.
9. Nevermore!
7 is Elijah in the first Book of Kings
Is 10 whatever disaster follows if the ravens leave the Tower of London?
A relatively tough google for 2 – it’s from a Walter Scott poem/song ‘Allen-a-dale’. The Baron of Ravensworth apparently princes in pride, and views his domains on Arkindale side. Whatever floats your boat, dude.
5 appears to be Ravenglass, and refers to “… the oldest working 15 inch gauge locomotive in the world” https://ravenglass-railway.co.uk/about-us/steam-engines/ [googled, obv]
6 much googling. The Marquis could be James Graham (Marquis of Montrose) in the poem “The Execution of Montrose” https://www.bartleby.com/246/100.html which has the lines “The grim Geneva ministers / With anxious scowl drew near / As you have seen the ravens flock / Around the dying deer”
10. Googling reveals that “The Rocks Remain” was Gavin Maxwell’s sequel to “Ring of Bright Water”. The third book in the trilogy is “Raven Seek Thy Brother”.