Mariel of Redwall

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This article is about the book. For the character, see Mariel Gullwhacker.

Mariel of Redwall, US Cover

Mariel of Redwall, UK Cover

Old stories told by travelers, Great songs that bards have sung, Of Mossflower summers, faded, gone, When Redwall's stones were young. Great Hall fires on winter nights, The legends, who remembers, Battles, banquets, comrades, quests, Recalled midst glowing embers. Draw close now, little woodlander, Take this to sleep with you, My tale of dusty far-off times, When warrior hearts were true. Then store it in your memory, And be the sage who says To young ones in the years to come: "Ah yes, those were the days.

―Poem from Mariel of Redwall

[edit] Book Divisions (English)

• Book 1: The Maid from the Sea
• Book 2: The Strange Forest
• Book 3: The Sound of a Bell!

[edit] Summary

The protagonist, Mariel Gullwhacker, was enslaved by Gabool the Wild when her father Joseph's ship, the Periwinkle, was captured. It had been carrying a bell to Lord Rawnblade Widestripe in Salamandastron, and that, too, was seized by Gabool. After attempting to attack Gabool, the mouse was thrown into the sea and washed up on the shore, with no memory. She took the name "Storm Gullwhacker", and gave the name "Gullwhacker" to the rope she had used to fight off a seabird.

Three members of the Long Patrol, Colonel Clary, Brigadier Thyme, and the Honorable Rosemary, escorted her to home of their old squirrel friend Pakatugg after finding Storm (aka Mariel) fighting toads, which she had encountered while walking along the beach, looking for water. The old squirrel tried to accompany the mousemaid to Redwall Abbey, but halfway through the journey, Storm lost her temper and decided to continue her journey alone. In the process, she met a male hare called Tarquin Longleap Woodsorrel, who played a strange instrument, the harolina (and was obsessed with Hon Rosie). They travelled together to Redwall Abbey.

At Redwall, woodlanders helped her regain her memory. She befriended a young fieldmouse named Dandin, the hedgehog, Durry Quill and they journeyed to Gabool's island of Terramort to defeat him. (Lord Rawnblade also joined with the four comrades.) The denizens of Redwall, meanwhile, defended the Abbey against Greypatch, a searat on the run from Gabool's army, and his horde. Clary and Thyme, along with their secretive squirrel friend Pakatugg, were killed freeing slaves from Greypatch's camp.

The bell was eventually recovered from Gabool, and given to Redwall Abbey as a gift. Named after its creator, it became the Joseph Bell.

Characters in Mariel of Redwall

[edit] Release details

• 1991, UK, Hutchinson Children's Books Ltd., ISBN 009176405X, Pub. Date: October 1991, Hardcover
• 1992, US, Philomel Books, ISBN 0399221441, Pub. Date: March 1992, Hardcover
• 1992, UK, Red Fox, ISBN 0099929600, Pub. Date: August 1992, Paperback
• 1994, UK, Arrow, ISBN 0099319411, Pub. Date: December 1994, Paperback
• 1999, US, Avon Books, ISBN 0380719223, Pub. Date: June 1999, Paperback
• 2000, US, Ace, ISBN 0441006949, Pub. Date: March 2000, Paperback
• 2003, US, Puffin Books, ISBN 0142302392, Pub. Date: March 2003, Paperback
• 2007, UK, Red Fox, ISBN 1862302421, Pub. Date: August 2007, Paperback
• 2007, US, Red Fox, ISBN 1862302421, Pub. Date: September 2007, Paperback