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(3.3) | 4 | 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 . . . .… (more) |
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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.
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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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None ▾Book descriptions 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 . . . . ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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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. The squalling infant was grandson to Manannan, warlord of Far Island, and son to Fomor, Wolf of the Western tribes, member of the warrior clan MacLir. But the child was also the firstborn of the slavewoman Hulder, from the country of Boreas, in the land of the North Wind, so it was not known whether the boy-child would be a blessing or a curse to the People of the Ax ... if he lived.
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