from the forest eaves; Into twilight under the leaves (ll.26 & 27). The lord’s progression shows him riding unaware through an entry-portal into the Otherworld. Celtic Otherworlds are various in their natures and appearances, but one of the most evocative is the deep forest, far from the human community, whose shadowed reaches are the habitat of all kinds of ‘otherness’, from strange birds and beasts to wild men to creatures of the other reality of faërie.
