But, most wondrously, he shall encounter Caitlin, a strange raven-haired girl who sings by night in the lonely wood, and who is said to have no soul. And Donald, the woodsman who broods on a terrible loss. And Oak Peg, a recluse who dwells in the wood, brewing potions and making cheese. For on the Island he shall encounter Coppin, a cantankerous old codger who keeps the secrets of Dundubh Cottage. But ghosts and a pinch of faerie luck may yet shape the fate of Sweyn, heir to a legacy he does not want, and quite beyond his imagination. She called up a magic wind, and forgetfulness, and drew him into something terrible and wonderful, and far too big for a shattered man who walks the brink of madness. And the old witch of the Island made plots for the sailor. For his lost wife was from the Island, a hidden place where enchanted things still dwell in the green world. So there he passed the wandering days, trying to forget. And then he found he was empty, and all that was left for him was the lonely sea. ![]() >Once upon a time, there was a sailor who had lost all he loved, and fell to doing terrible things. But let us begin it in the moment, in the last days of the Island of Manannan, with Sweyn deSauld, a man bereft of family, of hope, and even his right mind. ![]() ![]() For the lives of many, mortals and not, have been woven into the myth of the Ogham Wood. Maybe it truly begins with the vanishing of the Hundred Horsemen, for it was then a band of wandering Celtic tinkers appeared with a vision to save the fading faerie folk of the West.Īye, in any and all these places the tale could begin, and others too. Or perhaps the tale should begin fifteen hundred years later with Dylan O’Shee, exiled prince of a lost Irish kingdom who had the gift of finding souls. Where does one begin the tale of An Ogham Wood? Perhaps with the Lady Ellidurydd who was born three thousand years ago in wooded Wales and fell in love with a stag of the forest.
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