The Hollow Land (2014)
“They came from all over England, and had done every year since the gypsies started. There had been other people ahead of them—starting, they say, with the Greeks on their way to Scotland to leave stories and bagpipe dances behind them. Then the brooding Celts with their copper pans and choppers. Then the Romans, who travelled light but left rearrangements behind them. Then King Arthur and his knights, who fell asleep in a room under Richmond Castle and are still there if we could only find the ...way down. Then the dreadful Eric Bloodaxe arrived, who bit the Stainmore dust, and the unspeakable Scotsman, Malcolm the Red, who burned Appleby to the ground twice, before the Danes came and looked about more sanely and thought that this would be a nice place to settle down.
But even after all this, it was still a long time ago that the blue-eyed gypsies arrived for the Horse Fair, appearing by stages and to be seen in all the lay-bys of the road from the south which the Romans called Watling Street, like the swallows back from Africa.MoreLess
But even after all this, it was still a long time ago that the blue-eyed gypsies arrived for the Horse Fair, appearing by stages and to be seen in all the lay-bys of the road from the south which the Romans called Watling Street, like the swallows back from Africa.MoreLess
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