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You might (or there again, you might not) want to try The Sword At Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff. In this tale Arthur King is a post-Roman prince. Low on magic, high on (likely) realism
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You might (or there again, you might not) want to try The Sword At Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff. In this tale Arthur King is a post-Roman prince. Low on magic, high on (likely) realism
Thanks, sounds good I’ll look it up. Haven’t come across actual magic in this book yet, just descriptions of how pagan etc. people could’ve acted and understood the world.
Eseman
Tangentially related, I’ve started reading The Winter King, about Arthurian England. I really enjoyed the second scene which centres around a royal birth, and gives reimagined colour to the witchcraft and religious practices that would have accompanied such events in the distant and ancient past (spoiler!): roaring fires on the snow-covered parapets; local children banging pots, women howling and guards hitting their spears on their shields to keep demons and witches away in the night; pagan magic/midwifery.
The book outlines a lot of human suffering that makes me damn grateful to be alive now, the author’s poetic license aside.