The Children of Llyr

Synopsis

<b>From the first page of the Ballantine first edition:</b> "Welsh Mythology - and the long-neglected Books of the Mabinogi - When Evangeline Walton's <i>The Island of the Mighty</i> first appeared, it was greeted by reviewers all over the country with almost ecstatic acclaim. The <i>Times</i> described it as "a brilliant and diverting work of fiction that Arthur Machen would read with pleasure and praise; and one that might call forth the envy of James Branch Cabell..." <p>Drawn from the Second Book of the Mabinogi, <i>The Children of Llyr</i> is a part of the first great work. In stark, gaunt prose, it chronicles the years of Bran the Blessed - he who was so vast a man that no house could hold him not ship bear his bulk - and of the tale of his beloved sister Branwen, his brother Manawyddan, and of his half-brothers Nissyen and the ghastly Evnissyen. It is a tale of change and storm, of love beyond death, of high courage, of the end of an era - and the beginning of another."