The Worm Ouroboros
- by E. R. Eddison
- Novel
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Jonathan Cape, 1922).
For the most part, the story is a high fantasy in which three chiefs of Demonland—Lord Juss, Spitfire, and Brandoch Daha—embark on a heroic quest to rescue the fourth lord from his imprisonment in the mountains of Impland. However, at the end, Queen Sophonisba undertakes a resolution to the final problem that could well involve time travel.
—Michael Main
Lord, it is an Ambassador from Witchland and his train. He craveth present audience."
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Individual Rewinding: Queen Sophonisba appears to rewind time for the heroes, but it’s unclear whether all of time also rewinds, so we count this as an individual rewinding of just the group of heroes to their earlier state.
- Long Life: Queen Sophonisba and others have eternal youth.
- Real-World Tags
- Mercury: a fictional variant
- Fictional Tags
- Angels and Demons: Are the lords of Demonland actual demons or just in name?
- Deities: There seem to be gods behind everything.
- Fairies, Goblins, Dwarves, Nymphs, Elves, and Others of the Fae: imps
- Minotaurs, Centaurs, and Other Mash-Ups: Hippogriffs, a manticore
- Witches, Warlocks, Wizards, Magicians, etc.
- Groupings
Variants
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- The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Jonathan Cape, 1922).
- alternate title.
The Dragon Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Leaves of Gold, June 2013). - De worm Ouroboros [The worm Ouroboros] by E. R. Eddison (Contact, 1976).
- Le serpent Ouroboros [The serpent Ouroboros] by E. R. Eddison, 2 vols. (Callidor, December 2017 and December 2018).
- Der Wurm Ouroboros [The worm Ouroboros] by E. R. Eddison (Heyne, September 1981).
- Der Wurm Ouroboros [The worm Ouroboros] by E. R. Eddison (Bastei Lübbe, 1993).
Translations
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- The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Jonathan Cape, 1922).
- alternate title.
The Dragon Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison (Leaves of Gold, June 2013). - Dutch.
De worm Ouroboros [The worm Ouroboros] by E. R. Eddison (Contact, 1976). - French.
Le serpent Ouroboros [The serpent Ouroboros] by E. R. Eddison, 2 vols. (Callidor, December 2017 and December 2018). - German.
Der Wurm Ouroboros [The worm Ouroboros] by E. R. Eddison (Heyne, September 1981). - German.
Der Wurm Ouroboros [The worm Ouroboros] by E. R. Eddison (Bastei Lübbe, 1993).