6/10/2023 0 Comments Taliesin stephen r lawheadThe few survivors settle in western Britain, where Charis soon becomes attracted to the now handsome and angelic Taliesin. Amid ominous portents and dark murmurings, and a meaningless civil war, Charis becomes the greatest of all bull-dancers before an earthquake destroys Atlantis. The other strand features Charis, a willful and beautiful princess of Atlantis. He's adopted by his rescuer, prince Elphin, and schooled by the wise old druid Hafgan, at a time when the Roman occupation of Britain is faltering as barbarians from the North and East threaten to invade. One concerns the mysterious appearance-baby Taliesin is found sewn inside a sealskin sack in a weir-and childhood of Wales' greatest bard. The two narrative threads here eventually intertwine. Styled ""Book One in the Pendragon Cycle,"" apparently the first of a series retelling-yet again-the Arthurian sagas, to which Lawhead (the Dragon King trilogy Empyrion II: The Siege of Dome) has added a few curious embellishments of his own.
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