Bright-Browed, Oak-Hearted​

by P. D. Brown

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Stone circles, barrows and henges can be seen across the British Isles, they evoke a sense of wonder for a people about whose culture and beliefs we know next to nothing.  Later cultures, that still lived when writing arrived in Britain, have had preserved some of their myths and memories, told by word of mouth until then, and have come down to us today.  History, myth and legend were not discrete categories to them; there was only Story, stories whose yarns and threads are stitched into our landscape every bit as much as the henges and standing stones of the neolithic.

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These tales are not set in a land faraway; they have precise locations, from Gwynedd to Moray, from Bamburgh to Thanet.  It is through the power of story that these ancestral figures are conjured to life before the inner eye to live, love, fight and die again - and thus immortal; the vibrant ghosts of our early forebears, whose presence speaks in word and poetry a beauty, as enduring as the land itself.

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P.D. Brown is a poet and semi-professional story-teller specialising in ghost and  horror stories and pre-Christian tales from the Celtic and Germanic cultures of  north-west Europe.