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'Imagine that you sit warming yourself by a fire in a tiny settlement lying deep in snow. Sweet peat smoke scents the chill breeze and an old song-maker raises a keening cry for summers's long absence. Here amongst folk who call themselves the Feni was a young lad born and there passed his first years on Earth. Raised as the son of a blacksmith, Mawn, this very lad, knows little of the world outside his sleepy village. But Eirinn, his island home is in turmoil. Black-robed monks have made their way across the tempestuous sea from Rome and have set the people at war with one another. The Elf-High King and his Druid Council know they cannot survive the furious might of the Roman Empire, so they must find other ways to save their ancient magical traditions from the evils that threaten to engulf them. For this great task the Council has named a young boy who amongst the Feni was born and there passed his first years on Earth.'
Source: Fantastic Fiction website www.fantasticfiction.co.uk (Sighted 21/4/10)
Australian Popular Medievalism
Notes
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Book 1 of The Wanderers series.
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Dedication: For Nancy.
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'An immensely satisfying fusion between early Celtic history and fantasy' (Colleen McCullough, cover of 1995 edition).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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'Tis Pity These Are Such a Bore
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 August 1995; (p. 10A)
— Review of The Circle and the Cross 1995 single work novel
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'Tis Pity These Are Such a Bore
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 August 1995; (p. 10A)
— Review of The Circle and the Cross 1995 single work novel
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cIreland,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 400-499