Gonff’s Wuddshipp Song

I am not going to say that I won’t sneak another post labeled Redwall-Mossflower in, but this the last post in this series of posts featuring content from the Mossflower novel.

Gonff’s song is song that sang as he watched the Wuddshipp sink below the surface of the River Moss. The ship was scuttled in order to flood the castle Kotir and put an end to the diabolical wildcat, Verdauga Greeneyes and her forces.

“You carried use safe o’er the water,

So proudly you sailed the blue sea,

Now lie on the bed of a river,

To help make Mossflower free.

But here in our hearts we will keep you, Wuddshipp.

Like a great bird of freedom upon that last trip,

With the wind in my whiskers,

Surrounded by friends.

Sleep deeply, old Wuddshipp,

Your voyaging ends."

(Mossflower, 387)