In the newly united Scotland of the 850s, elite poets -- like druids in the past -- are power brokers. Aidan, poet to the High King, Kenneth MacAlpin, treads a precarious path between contentious chiefs, and old and new religions, as he guides his foster-sister through the equally precarious terrain of Second Sight. Historically based, full of lyric imagination, The Stringless Harp looks to one of Europe's ...Täielik kirjeldus
In the newly united Scotland of the 850s, elite poets -- like druids in the past -- are power brokers. Aidan, poet to the High King, Kenneth MacAlpin, treads a precarious path between contentious chiefs, and old and new religions, as he guides his foster-sister through the equally precarious terrain of Second Sight. Historically based, full of lyric imagination, The Stringless Harp looks to one of Europe's oldest cultures in a tale of timeless integrity.