The Forrest House

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

he first century a.D. England, Albion, is occupied by the Romans, Londonium their largest settlement. Only in Wales, Scottland and Ireland the Celtic communities have survived. They are pressed by the Roman's claims to dominate them aswell as the Romans themselves by the new Christian beliefs that have found some followers allready in England of those days.

E ilan, daughter of a Celtic Barde, grows up near the border between England and Wales. She is trained to be a seer in the sisterhood of priestesses and has to pay a high price for this: Like the Roman Vestalies it is forbidden to her to love a man. When Gaius the soldier, son of a Roman Governor with an English woman is brought to Eilans home heavily wounded, the anavoidable starts - and it has consequences...

n a dramatic finale the worldview of the Romans is victorious and the Celtic communities are destroyed. Only Eilans son survives. Gawen becomes the first Merlin. Another one will appear centuries later out of the mists of Avalon at the court of king Arthur and will reconcile the eagle of Rome with the dragon of Albion and the fish of Christianity. (Translation from the cover of the German book)

T he cover of the german book was illustrated by Buchholz/Hinsch/Hensinger using an art work of Angus Gray- Burbridge. The Copyright rests with Wolf Krüger Verlag.

Submenue chapter "The book"

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