Alvilda:
Real or Not?
When I received copyedits for The Last Will of
Moira Leahy, this was one of the questions for
me in the margin: “Was Alvilda a real person, or
a legend? Online sources (Google search) not authoritative.”
This was no surprise. Information about Alvilda, pirate
queen, was inconsistent and hard to come by. But I’d
already decided that it didn’t matter whether Alvilda
was real or not, only that the story had been told
to a young Maeve. Like the power of the keris,
it was the belief in Alvilda that was most important.
You can learn more about Alvilda’s story HERE and
HERE.
• Javanese mysticism and
the keris
• Alvilda
• Castine, Maine
• Rome, Italy
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