~Storyteller Knight
 | Title: The Crystal Cave Author: Mary Stewart Publisher: William & Morrow Pages: 527 Synopsis: (from the publisher) Almost everyone knows Merlin as the dark, brooding figure mysteriously associated with Camelot and King Arthur’s court.
But who, really, was
Merlin? Was he the enchanter of fairy tales, the magician of the black robe and
pointed hat and wand? Or was he the king and prophet of old legends of Brittany
and Wales? How did a man reputed to be the bastard son of the Prince of
Darkness, and condemned to death as a child of the Devil, become the chief
architect of the first united Britain?
Mary Stewart’s answers to
these provocative questions form a spell-binding novel that catapults the
reader into fifth-century Britain—a land uncertainly divided by conflicting
loyalties, political and spiritual; a land riddled with rumor real and planted,
and spear-alert with superstitious fear.
Into this strange world
was born Merlin, bastard son of Niniane, daughter of the King of South Wales,
and an unknown father. The novel opens in Wales when Merlin is seven, and
closes in Cornwall, at Tintagel, with the begetting of Arthur.
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My aunt and uncle were moving to a smaller place and my uncle gave me his copies of Mary Stewart's Arthurian books. I mentioned it to Story, who suggested the joint project we are on now.
Spoilers!, etc…
