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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HARPING OF CRAVETHEEN When Cormac, that was known throughout all Northern Eird as Cormac Conlingas, Cormac the son of Concobar the son of Nessa, was one of the ten hostages to Conairy M6r for the lealty of the Ultonians, he was loved by men and women because of his strength, his valour, and his comeliness. He was taller than the tallest of his nine comrades by an inch, and broader by two inches than the broadest: though that fellowship of nine was of the tallest and broadest men among the Ultonians, who were the greatest warriors that green Banba, as Eir or Erin was called by the bards who loved her, has ever seen. The shenachies sang of him as a proud champion, with eyes full of light and fire, his countenance broad above and narrow below, ruddy-faced, with hair as of the gold of the September moon. The commonalty spoke of his mighty spear- thrust, of his deft sword-swing, the terror of his wrath, of the fury of his battle-lust, of his laughter and light joy, and the singing that was on his lips when his sword had the silence upon it. No man dared touch Blue- Green, as Cormac Conlingas called it, ?the Whispering Sword as it was named among his fellows. Blue-Green, for in its sweep it gleamed blue-green as the leaping levin, whispered whenever it was athirst, and a red draught it was that would quench that thirst and no other draught for the drinking: and it whispered when there was a ferment of the red blood among men who hated while they feared the Ultonians: and it whispered whenever a shadow dogged the shadow of Cormac the son of Concobar the son of Nessa. Therefore it was that of all who desired his death there was none that did not fear the doom-whisper of the sword that had been forged by L6n the Smith, where he sits and works forever amid his mist o..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217767125 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217767125 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 106 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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