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The Silver Hand

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by Stephen R. Lawhead
Stuart Langton
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The great king, Meldryn Mawr, is dead, and his kingdom lies in ruins. Treachery and brutality rule the land, and Albion is the scene of an epic struggle for the throne. The words of a prophetess foretell a coming king, but Lewis—as Albion's renowned champion, Llew—has a more immediate concern: retrieving the treacherous Siawn Hy, who has eluded him in the doorway between worlds.

Forced to flee for their lives, Llew and the bard Tegid find refuge deep in Albion's heartland. There Llew seeks the true meaning behind the mysterious prophecy—the making of a true king and the revealing of a long-awaited champion: Silver Hand. Under Llew and Tegid's leadership, a wilderness citadel arises, and the miraculous reign of Silver Hand begins.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Song of Albion

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 15, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781483055466
      • File size: 365069 KB
      • Duration: 12:40:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When the king dies in Albion, a land of Celtic myth, his son doesn't automatically ascend to the throne. Instead, the bard Tegid gets to name the successor. The bard's choice of the visitor Llew angers the late king's son into a rage of vengeance in which he disfigures his two challengers and leaves them for dead. The world of Albion is confusing at first, since the story unfolds in the native Tegid's voice, but once one grows accustomed, it's engrossing. Stuart Langton reads with a poetic voice well suited to a storytelling bard. J.A.S. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 4, 1992
      A troubled Celtic Otherworld with gateways into our own is the setting for the second volume in the Song of Albion series, following The Paradise War . After Meldryn Mawr, king of the Llwyddi, is treacherously slain, the bard and narrator, Tegid Tathal, names Llew, the king's champion and a sojourner from our world, as successor. The king's son Meldron contests the bard's ancient right to confer kingship and claims the throne himself. Tegid and Llew escape imprisonment only to witness the slaughter of the rest of Albion's bards; then Meldron blinds Tegid and cuts off Llew's hand, thereby denying him kingship for all time, since only an unblemished man can reign. Escaping again, Tegid and Llew wander in the wilderness, encountering a possible god, before they begin to build Dinas Dwr, a city of refuge for all those oppressed by Meldron, whose depredations are poisoning a beautiful land. Lawhead invests his often poetic vision of a Celtic land living by ancient laws with charm and dignity.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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