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Diphthongs—each vowel is pronounced individually, so Taliesin = Tallyessin

Atlantean—Ch = kh, so Charis is Khar-iss




“Ten rings there are, and nine gold tores

on the battlechiefs of old; Eight princely virtues, and seven sins

for which a soul is sold; Six in the sum of earth and sky,

of all things meek and bold; Five is the number of ships that sailed

from Atlantis lost and cold; Four kings of the Westerlands were saved,

three kingdoms now behold; Two came together in love and fear,

in Llyonesse stronghold; One world there is, one God, and one birth

the Druid stars foretold.”


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 Lawhead, Stephen R. - Taliesin


S. R. L.

Oxford, England, 1987



BOOK ONE - A GIFT OF JADE

CHAPTER ONE

I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves. I have no more tears
for my youth in the temple of the brindled ox. Life is strong in me and I will not
grieve for what was or might have been. Mine is a different path and I must follow
where it leads.

But I look out from my high window onto fields of corn ripening to the scythe. I
see them rippling like a golden sea, and in the rustling of the dry leaves I hear
again the voices of my people calling to me across the years. I close my eyes and I
see them now as they were from my earliest memories. They stand before me and
I enter once more that glad time when we were young and the cataclysm had not
come upon us—before Throm appeared with dire prophecies burning on his lips.