The Martlet in Fiction
A talking martlet is employed as a curious story-device in ER Edisson's fantasy novel The Worm Ouroboros. At the outset of the novel the martlet conducts the reader to Mercury whereon the action proceeds. Thereafter it performs a linking role as a messenger of the Gods.
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