She sang of Arianrhod, Pryderi, Llew, Danu, and Carridwen, and all their glorious adventures; of Pwyll and Rhiannon, and their impossible love; of Taliesin, Arthur Pendragon, and wise Myrddin Embries, whose fame made Britain the Island of the Mighty. She sang of the Cauldron of Rebirth, the Isle of the Everliving, and the making of many-splendoured Albion.I don't know exactly what it is that Lawhead does, but he breaths such life into his tales. I was talking to Fib today and he said that many of the bards tales Lawhead recounts are based on historical tales and not created whole cloth. This could be part of the charm. I especially enjoy scenes where a bard will sing (and Lawhead relates in full) a traditional tale.
~Matt
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"She sang of Arianrhod, Pryderi, Llew, Danu, and Carridwen, and all their glorious adventures; of Pwyll and Rhiannon, and their impossible love; of Taliesin, Arthur Pendragon, and wise Myrddin Embries, whose fame made Britain the Island of the Mighty. She sang of the Cauldron of Rebirth, the Isle of the Everliving, and the making of many-splendoured Albion."
Thanks, Matt. You have given me a little smackeral without revealing the plot. I have emboldened : ) those that are either definitely, or vaguely familiar.
I have just started the Warlords of Nin. It has been so long since I read these that only a few scenes are causing even a mild spark in my gray cells. The funny thing is that the only scene I said I did remember about the books is divided up and in the first book. I recalled Quentin riding through the forest in the snow, which is in the second chapter, and being hit by an arrow, which is almost at the end of the book. I guess what they say about remembering the first and last thing you read rings true.
This trilogy reminds me most of The Song of Albion since it is pure fantasy with no basis in history. (Though Albion is set partially in the real world.) Quentin's story is Lawhead's first published work and it is fun to go back and look it over having watched his writing improve with each new story that comes out.
I have to say that I think that his sci-fi books are the best I have read. (Maybe I don't get out much.) I was impressed with how very unlike reality he made them. ---Though no one is able to escape the basic truth that man is sinful. It has come out in every piece of fiction I have ever read. Man cannot conceive of anything else. This is another reason that it is easy for me to believe that God is real and that the Bible is true.
Congrats on the job, Matt! Fib thought that job hunting might be the cause of your disappearance.
You bolded the same ones that were familiar to me--either as characters or I think sometimes as parts of tales recounted by Lawhead's bards.
You know, you're right about Lawhead's sci-fi (though they're not my faviurite of his), they are so different and strange. But of course the depravity of man, the truth of good and evil manage to come through even in such strange surroundings.
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