Hwin
Also known as Hwin the Mare
A Narnian Talking Mare living in Calormen who escapes north with Aravis. Quietly perceptive and courageous, she often sees through Bree’s bluster.
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In the chronicles
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The Horse and His Boy19 cited passages⌄
- Chapter II · paragraph 57
"Hold your tongue, Hwin, and don't be a fool," said the other.
Open passage → - Chapter II · paragraph 67
"I wish you'd held your tongue, Hwin," said the girl. "Look at the trouble you've got us into."
Open passage → - Chapter III · paragraph 2
…ay. But on the second day I rose up and washed my face and caused my mare Hwin to be saddled and took with me a sharp dagger which my brother had carried in the western wars and rode out alo…
Open passage → - Chapter III · paragraph 5
…f a gnat. Therefore I addressed myself a second time to the stabbing, but Hwin came near to me and put her head in between me and the dagger and discoursed to me most excellent reasons and r…
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 13
… his dreams he went on wondering what had happened to Bree and Aravis and Hwin.
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 16
…ct not very like the lion's roars he had heard on the night when they met Hwin and Aravis, and was really the cry of a jackal. But of course Shasta did not know this. Even if he had known, h…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 42
…cks. You'll be saddled and bridled again. But there'll have to be food in Hwin's saddle-bags and a full water-skin behind yours, Bree. The man has orders to let you both have a good long dri…
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 19
But before she had reached them she saw Bree and Hwin and the groom.
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 22
…xt few seconds Aravis was busy kissing the noses and patting the necks of Hwin and Bree just as if they were quite ordinary horses.
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 5
"I hope we're in time," murmured Hwin.
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 10
"What's what?" said Bree, turning round. Hwin and Aravis did the same.
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 33
…d a meal. He had thought, of course, of going back to Aravis and Bree and Hwin at the hermitage, but he couldn't because by now he had not the least idea of the direction.
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 36
…adies got safe away from Tashbaan; I was left behind. Aravis and Bree and Hwin are all as snug as anything with that old Hermit: of course I was the one who was sent on. King Lune and his pe…
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 19
…sat gazing into the smooth pool beneath the spreading tree, with Bree and Hwin and Aravis beside him.
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 25
"What is it?" asked Hwin breathlessly.
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 3
"I've had enough of this," said Hwin. "The Hermit has been very good to us and I'm very much obliged to him, I'm sure. But I'm getting as fat as a p…
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 7
"Oh, of course," said Hwin. "I expect he is in Anvard. Naturally we'd look in on him and say good-bye. But that's on our way. And why shou…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 7
Then the King turned to Hwin and Bree and was just as polite to them as to Aravis, and asked them a lot of questions about their families an…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 62
…, the most famous of all the kings of Archenland, was their son. Bree and Hwin lived happily to a great age in Narnia and both got married but not to one another. And there weren't many mont…
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