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'Steep Relic' are in fact names used in manuscripts of the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the islands of Flatholme and
Steepholme at the mouth of the river Severn (see The Lost Road
and Other Writings p. 80); according to Earle and Plummer,
Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel (1892; II.128), 'The name
"Relic" may point to some Irish religious settlements on these
islands; "relicc" (= reliquiae) is the regular Irish name for a
cemetery.'
I take this opportunity to notice two important misprints that
entered the text of Sauron Defeated at a late stage. The first is
on p. 297, where line 45 of the poem Imram should read We
sailed then on till all winds failed, etc. The second is on p. 475,
where in Index II a line was dropped after the entry Pharazir;
the following should be restored: Pillar of Heaven, The 238,
241-2,249,302,315,317,335,353.

Lastly, I should mention that after the text of this book was in
print I added a discussion of the significance of the star-names
that appear on p. 160 to the head-note to the Index.