A Dream of Eagles

[bibliogramma]

I have been happily re-reading the first few volumes of Jack Whyte's marvelous historically based interpretation of the Arthurian cycle, and am now moving on to read the volumes I had missed reading over the past few years.

Read so far:
The Skystone
The Singing Sword
The Eagle's Brood
The Saxon Shore

Still to be read:
Uther
The Sorcerer: The Fort at River's Bend
The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis
Clothar the Frank
The Eagle

It will probably be a while before I can read the latest book, The Eagle, because it's just out in hardcover and I really can't afford to buy books in hardcover because there are just too many books.



I have enjoyed this series, at least so far, because instead of just picking up the whole Arthur legend in its current formulation and dropping it into somewhere around the "right" historical era, it starts from the political and military situation in Britannia just before the pull-out of the roman legions and tries to develop something that makes sense historically, even if it doesn't have all the "proper" characters playing all the "proper" parts. It will be very interesting to see how the inclusion of the Clothar character (Whyte's analogue of Lancelot) is handled, becasue of course, Lancelot is a relatively late addition to the cycle, added initially by Chrétien de Troyes to make the Matter of Britain interesting to his French audiences.