657AD. Northumbria, one of the seven warring Anglo Saxon kingdoms, where Celtic and Roman Christianity, old pagan beliefs and magic clash. Oswin, a monk from the monastery of Herutea travels to Streonshalh bearing secret letters from the Abbess Hild. This means treading a path across a volatile wilderness where faith, history, myth and folklore intertwine to form the threads of the Wyrd. Written in a powerful mix of Old English, modern English and northern dialect forms, Leásungspell is a narrative epic poem about a pre-Modern world. It is a tale of twisting digressions, dreamscapes and stories within stories. It is also an anti-epic, a fool's yarn, the small tale of a nobody wandering alone through the Dark Ages.
| ISBN: | 9780993149054 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2016 |
| Author: | Bob Beagrie |
| Publisher: | Smokestack Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 104 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |