Storyteller - Softcover

G. R. Grove

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143030524X ISBN 13: 9781430305248

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2006

Synopsis

“Blood and fire, gold and steel and poetry, a river’s voice in the silence of the night, and the shining strings of a harp – all these and more I have known in my time... Now they are all gone, the men and women I knew when I was young, gone like words on the wind, and I am left here in the twilight to tell you their tale. Sit, then, and listen if you will to the words of Gwernin Kyuarwyd, called Storyteller…” So begins the tale of the young Gwernin’s adventures as a wandering storyteller and would-be bard in the chaos and contradictions of 6th century Britain. Along the way he encounters allies and enemies both human and supernatural, finds love and friendship, and learns the lore - and the true meaning - of a Bard’s profession.

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From the Back Cover

"Na, there will always be need for Bards," said Kyan. "If not
to sing the warriors' deeds now, then to remember those who fought before,
and teach those who will fight afterwards the way of it... We are like the
pin in the cloak-clasp, the smallest, plainest part, and yet without it the
brooch falls away and is lost, and the cloak with it, and the man perishes
from the cold. So is it with us. If the Bards should ever take the
Druids' road west, it would be a black day for the Cymry, for what is there
to hold a people together who do not remember their past?"

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143030524X
• ISBN 13: 9781430305248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252