Magdalen Rising (2013)
“I whispered to Fand and Boann.
“So did we.”
The three of us turned around halfway and peered into the crowd. There was King Bran, still standing alone, looking perplexed and aggrieved.
“Come on, lads. Speak up! You gave me your word.”
Silence.
“So that’s what your word is worth. You’d let me down. In a sacred oak grove. In front of the druids. Have you no shame? You’ll be selling your scummy hides to the Romans next.”
“Ah, Bran,” one man whined. “Don’t hold us to it. We didn’t know. You didn’t ...tell us that they were them.”
That may sound impossibly obscure, not to mention ungrammatical. I believe they were objecting to the Otherworldliness of my mothers and me. I don’t know if twentieth century minds, overlaid with celluloid conventions (the good guys vs. the bad guys) can grasp what the Otherworld meant to my contemporaries. It was in no way seen as demonic. It was simply Other: shining, beautiful, dangerous. Most Celts had a healthy respect for the Otherworld that included a wholesome fear.MoreLess
“So did we.”
The three of us turned around halfway and peered into the crowd. There was King Bran, still standing alone, looking perplexed and aggrieved.
“Come on, lads. Speak up! You gave me your word.”
Silence.
“So that’s what your word is worth. You’d let me down. In a sacred oak grove. In front of the druids. Have you no shame? You’ll be selling your scummy hides to the Romans next.”
“Ah, Bran,” one man whined. “Don’t hold us to it. We didn’t know. You didn’t ...tell us that they were them.”
That may sound impossibly obscure, not to mention ungrammatical. I believe they were objecting to the Otherworldliness of my mothers and me. I don’t know if twentieth century minds, overlaid with celluloid conventions (the good guys vs. the bad guys) can grasp what the Otherworld meant to my contemporaries. It was in no way seen as demonic. It was simply Other: shining, beautiful, dangerous. Most Celts had a healthy respect for the Otherworld that included a wholesome fear.MoreLess
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