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As the Stone Age slowly gives way to the age of Bronze, a proud warrior clan faces the challenge of a new life in an alien land. Led by the great chieftain Fomor, once called the Wolf of the Western Tribes, the clan MacLir knows the limits of stone against the strange new weapons of their sworn enemy, Nemed MacAgnomian. And so the people of the Ax have settles in the fens of Albion, exchanging flint weapons for farm implements, trading the ways of the warrior for the path of peace. But prosperity has not followed on the heels of their decision, and many in the clan urge their lord to become the Wolf once more . . . or threaten to rise up against him. It is Fomor's firstborn son, Balor, headstrong, and defiant, who receives the sign of the gods that the time of the Wolf is at hand--as the cruel Nemed and his raiders sail toward Albion's shores to wipe the clan MacLir from the face of the earth. And it is Balor who will take up the forbidden sword Retaliator to avenge the past . . . .… (altro)
I'm surprised how much of this story is still vivid 15 years after I've read it. I have no idea what I would think of it if I were to reread it now. What made the story so memorable for me, is that it was carefully placed within a historical context, and I loved the idea of a very sophisticated ancient England and even the odd (and unlikely?) idea of ancient Greece mingling in its affairs. ( )
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There's woe in the world, An ax age, a sword age, A storm age, a wolf age. Before the world crumbles, No mercy or quarter Will man give to man. The sun grows dark, The earth sinks into the sea, The bright stars Fall from the skies. Then shall the Mighty One come to his kingdom.
Voluspa - the Sibyl's Prophecy
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To Dorothy and John, my two.
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At the dawn of the Age of Bronze, at the eclipse of the Age of Stone, a boy-child was born to the People of the Ax.
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As the Stone Age slowly gives way to the age of Bronze, a proud warrior clan faces the challenge of a new life in an alien land. Led by the great chieftain Fomor, once called the Wolf of the Western Tribes, the clan MacLir knows the limits of stone against the strange new weapons of their sworn enemy, Nemed MacAgnomian. And so the people of the Ax have settles in the fens of Albion, exchanging flint weapons for farm implements, trading the ways of the warrior for the path of peace. But prosperity has not followed on the heels of their decision, and many in the clan urge their lord to become the Wolf once more . . . or threaten to rise up against him. It is Fomor's firstborn son, Balor, headstrong, and defiant, who receives the sign of the gods that the time of the Wolf is at hand--as the cruel Nemed and his raiders sail toward Albion's shores to wipe the clan MacLir from the face of the earth. And it is Balor who will take up the forbidden sword Retaliator to avenge the past . . . .
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