This song was sung by Stryga, the Weaver, when Feyre Archeron visits her home for the first time.
History[]
A Court of Mist and Fury []
When Rhysand, the High Lord of the Night Court sends Feyre to the Weaver's Cottage to find an object of his that disappeared years ago as a form of training she finds the Weaver spinning on her spinning wheel while singing a song. When Feyre identifies the object the Weaver notices her presence, stops singing and causes the spinning wheel to slow down to a stop and then magically seals her house to prevent Feyre from escaping, which she does anyway but through the fireplace.
Content[]
This are the lyrics to the song the Weaver was singing:
- There were two sisters, they went playing,
- To see their father's ship come sailing...
- And when they came unto the sea-brim
- The elder did push the younger in.
- Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam,
- 'Til her corpse came to the miller's dam.
- But what did he do with her breastbone?
- He made him a viol to play on.
- What'd he do with her fingers so small?
- He made pegs to his viol withall.
- And what did he do with her nose-ridge?
- Unto his viol he made a bridge.
- What did he do with her veins so blue?
- He made strings to his viol thereto.
- What did he do with her eyes so bright?
- On his viol he set at first light.
- What did he do with her tongue so rough?
- 'Twas the new till and it spoke enough.
- Then bespake the treble string,
- "O yonder is my father the king."
- Then bespoke the second string,
- "O yonder sits my mother the queen."
- Then bespake the strings all three,
- "Yonder is my sister that drowned me."
Trivia[]
- According to Feyre, she had heard that song before when she was mortal but the lyrics differed a bit.
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