My source is Katharine Briggs' An Encyclopedia of Fairies, published in 1970. She pins "Seelie Court" on the Scottish general-issue "seelie" for "Good Fairies", from which construction "Unseelie" proceeds. So, for my particular purposes, that's Good Enough for Rock 'n Roll.
I probably did pick up "The Queen of Air and Darkness" as the Queen of the Unseelie Court from War for the Oaks (one of my favorite books ever), since I can't find any corraboration in Briggs, but I was, y'know, hoping...
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Date: 2005-05-27 05:48 am (UTC)I probably did pick up "The Queen of Air and Darkness" as the Queen of the Unseelie Court from War for the Oaks (one of my favorite books ever), since I can't find any corraboration in Briggs, but I was, y'know, hoping...