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The History Press
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[2013]
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English
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A new working of a key myth from Welsh mythologyPryderi led a rich life, but suffered an early death. He inhabited a warrior world: not the chivalry of courtly knights, nor the underhand dealings of the modern world of politics, but a world of battlefields, cattle raids, magic and might, life and death. Stories about Pryderi have been told time after time since the earliest days. The interwoven tales that tell his story, among many others, have come...
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The History Press
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[2013]
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English
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The only modern story of the legendary king who invited the English to Britain and discovered Arthur's mentor, MerlinThe tragedy of King Arthur is one segment of a vast cycle, the "Matter of Britain," stretching across generations of early British kings. Vortigern is central to this cycle. King two generations before Arthur, he opens Britain to the Saxons, ancestors of the modern English. Rising from humble roots, he takes center stage at court in...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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The earliest ballads of "Robyn Hode" are told in vivid modern prose-fast, violent, satirical, sinister, tragic, and national epicThe five earliest ballads of "Robyn Hode" constitute the best version of the famous, heroic outlaw-fast and violent, earthy and satirical, dangerous, sinister, mysterious, and revolutionary. The king is always referred to as "Edward our comely king," pointing to the reign of Edward I, when a Robert Hode of Wakefield, an...
4) Pryderi
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The Four Branches of the Mabinogion are a rich treasure trove of tales. These magical, quintessentially Welsh stories are confusing, but it would be hard to match their splendid strangeness. The Four Branches tell of the kings and queens of Wales in the time of' 'Once upon a time'. Only one character appears in all Four Branches. He is Pryderi, and the story of his life journey is told in this book.
Pryderi is brave and bold: sometimes foolhardy,...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Stories of the knights who gathered around Arthur's great table and their adventures in the wide world. Around the round table there was always one seat which remained empty, a place left for the one who would one day attain the grail and redeem and restore the land. It was known as the Seat Perilous, and anyone who sat there undeservedly would be consumed by fire. These are the untold stories of the knights who went out into the world to prove themselves...
6) Vortigern
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'My name is Vortigern ... '
Generations before Arthur's birth, a British warlord looks back on his life: his rise from humble roots to shake the thrones of a dying empire; his stand against chaos amid the aftermath of Rome; his struggle with the greedy, embittered princes of church and kingdom; his loves and his losses, and his last encounter with his own mysterious destiny, on a mountain where the world we know is beginning to take shape before his...
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There was a time in Ireland's history when chivalry and chieftainry ruled the land. When the country was occupied by bands of warriors, who spoke only their native tongue, and who cherished their heritage and civilisation. This was the time of Cuchulainn. All of the warrior bands had their own Seanachie, a person responsible for recounting the deeds of times past, a chronicler of the ages. Cuchulainn was their most famous subject and hundreds of tales...
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