In very good condition - Hardcover
 
Gwion knew the story by heart: how long ago Lord Elphin had rescued him, a baby abandoned on a seashore, and brought him to the farm; and in revenge the sea had drowned in land instead.  But now that his foster-father had come again to claim his foundling, Gwion could see that Elphin was disappointed in him, would rather have taken Meg's other boy, sturdy Rhys, with him to King Maelgwn's court at Aberffraw.  And though he had seen in his dreams how it would be, it was still a bitter blow.
 
After the farm, Gwion found life at Maelgwn's court hard and strange.  He seemed to have no place among the king's rough band of fighting men, and though he enjoyed his studies at the monastery, he knew he could never be content to be a monk or scholar.  But who was he to be; a boy with no name, no family, no inheritance?  The witch Morduff had promised him fame, and yet there seemed to Gwion no way he could possibly achieve it.
 
This is a tale of cunningly woven from history and legend, about the extraordinary journery through childhood of the bard Taliesin, whose name and game have after all survived some fourteen centuries.