durl

Updated: May 9, 2025

And I had liked the ways that his sailors had, and the prayers that they prayed at evening side by side, grudging not one another their alien gods. And I had a liking too for the tender way in which they often spoke of Durl and Duz, for it is good that men should love their native cities and the little hills that hold those cities up.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay

So the sailors drank the wine of their native land, and soon their thoughts were back in fair Belzoond and the little neighbouring cities of Durl and Duz. But for me the captain poured into a little glass some heavy yellow wine from a small jar which he kept apart among his sacred things.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Tales of Three Hemispheres