In Burgdale, a valley of farmers, weavers and smiths, young Face-of-god is promised to a kinswoman called the Bride, but on the mountain he meets a woman of a hidden people. Through her he learns of the Dusky Men, raiders who have enslaved neighbouring Silver-dale, and the kindreds of dale, wood and mountain must swear oaths and gather for war.
One of the prose romances of Morris’s last years, written in a deliberately archaic English that later fantasy writers learned from. Download the free EPUB.