To Kiko21: I don't think that the child is actually born by the end of the album. I interpret the whole thing as occuring over little more than a day (save for the few months between HoL 1 and Margaret going back to the Taiga). After all, William only asks for one night with his love.
i also interpret it that way. you can tell the time change between HoL1 and the bower scene where "our heroine withdraws to the taiga" because it says she starts to show, but the rest seems to all be swift. i feel like here when they say "a sweet little baby" they are talking about the fact that margaret is pregnant with one, not that it's born.
i also interpret it that way. you can tell the time change between HoL1 and the bower scene where "our heroine withdraws to the taiga" because it says she starts to show, but the rest seems to all be swift. i feel like here when they say "a sweet little baby" they are talking about the fact that margaret is pregnant with one, not that it's born.
Exactly. And for further evidence, I would imagine that if the baby were born, the narrators would specify a gender. Since they don't, it's likely that the baby is still int he womb.
Exactly. And for further evidence, I would imagine that if the baby were born, the narrators would specify a gender. Since they don't, it's likely that the baby is still int he womb.
And, as a friend of mine pointed out, this is The Decemberists. If she'd had the baby, Colin would so totally not miss a chance to devote a song to making the labor pains poetical and poignant.
And, as a friend of mine pointed out, this is The Decemberists. If she'd had the baby, Colin would so totally not miss a chance to devote a song to making the labor pains poetical and poignant.
Margaret dies while pregnant(HoL4), since no one would accept her and her bastard child back in their village(keep in mind William is a fawn by day, so no one would really know that he exists).
Margaret dies while pregnant(HoL4), since no one would accept her and her bastard child back in their village(keep in mind William is a fawn by day, so no one would really know that he exists).
To Kiko21: I don't think that the child is actually born by the end of the album. I interpret the whole thing as occuring over little more than a day (save for the few months between HoL 1 and Margaret going back to the Taiga). After all, William only asks for one night with his love.
i also interpret it that way. you can tell the time change between HoL1 and the bower scene where "our heroine withdraws to the taiga" because it says she starts to show, but the rest seems to all be swift. i feel like here when they say "a sweet little baby" they are talking about the fact that margaret is pregnant with one, not that it's born.
i also interpret it that way. you can tell the time change between HoL1 and the bower scene where "our heroine withdraws to the taiga" because it says she starts to show, but the rest seems to all be swift. i feel like here when they say "a sweet little baby" they are talking about the fact that margaret is pregnant with one, not that it's born.
Exactly. And for further evidence, I would imagine that if the baby were born, the narrators would specify a gender. Since they don't, it's likely that the baby is still int he womb.
Exactly. And for further evidence, I would imagine that if the baby were born, the narrators would specify a gender. Since they don't, it's likely that the baby is still int he womb.
And, as a friend of mine pointed out, this is The Decemberists. If she'd had the baby, Colin would so totally not miss a chance to devote a song to making the labor pains poetical and poignant.
And, as a friend of mine pointed out, this is The Decemberists. If she'd had the baby, Colin would so totally not miss a chance to devote a song to making the labor pains poetical and poignant.
Margaret dies while pregnant(HoL4), since no one would accept her and her bastard child back in their village(keep in mind William is a fawn by day, so no one would really know that he exists).
Margaret dies while pregnant(HoL4), since no one would accept her and her bastard child back in their village(keep in mind William is a fawn by day, so no one would really know that he exists).