His father is abusive, stubborn, and short sighted, and Bran would rather court the beautiful Merian than grow up to be anything like his father. Maybe it all started in a beautiful, wooded, green country called Wales, where the people simply wanted to remain free.īran ap Brychan never wanted to be King of Elfael. Maybe it didn’t start in Sherwood, maybe it’s main character never went to the crusades. Hood, the first book in the King Raven trilogy, is Stephen Lawhead’s fictional account of how a most famous myth got started. What happens to a story after a thousand years? Is there any way to know how it really began?
With every head on a pike and every new church built, the Normans believed they were bringing freedom and civilization, while the Welsh felt they were already free and civilized. Not long after 1066 he turned his gaze further west, to Wales.
It was over a thousand years ago that William the Conqueror decided England was his by divine right. Why I read it: Have enjoyed previous Stephen Lawhead titles. Hood, Book 1 of the King Raven Trilogy, by Stephen Lawhead
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