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Hawkfall
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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1904598188
ISBN-13 9781904598183
Publisher Birlinn General
Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Aug 31st, 2004
Print length 256 Pages
Weight 170 grams
Dimensions 19.70 x 12.90 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification: Short stories
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This collection of stories demonstrates the full range of George Mackay Brown's literary talent. All of these sharply-etched fables deal with his perennial themes - love, violence, death and rebirth - and are set in an Orcadian world that spans myth and reality, past and present.
He was dead. The spirit of the Beloved One had gone on alone into the hall of death. His body was left to them for seven days yet so that they might give it a fitting farewell. Now it was time for it too to be sent after. The priests washed his old frail bluish body with water that had been drawn at sunrise. They arrayed him in his ceremonial vestments: the dyed woollen kirtle, the great gray cloak of wolfskin, the seelskin slippers. Across his breast they laid his whalebone bow, with seven arrows of larch. In his right hand they put the long oaken spear. The old mouth began to smile in its scant silken beard, perhaps because everything was being done well and according to the first writings. Now it was time. All was ready.

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