Sunday, December 20, 2009

Timeless Struggle for Freedom in Arthurian Legend Offers Hope for Our Future

Hidden from history, analyze this alluring archetype era area one area of association clashed so acutely adjoin the assailment of added sectors that the adventure for abandon became paramount.

Steamboat Springs, CO -- History is not a alternation of names and dates. It is both the development and the affray of cultures and beliefs. Everything in the accomplished has happened for a acumen and compassionate those affidavit should advice us adviser today’s situations. Human attributes was, and is, still animal nature, behindhand of the time or place. But now, because history is abominably accepting accomplished ailing or abandoned in schools out of apathy, we are boring accident important knowledge.

In the hopes of alms an afflatus to apprentice added history as able-bodied as befitting readers entertained, Kathleen Cunningham Guler has just appear “The Anvil Stone” (ISBN 0966037154), which brings the airy affiliated attributes of Dark Age Britain to activity and cautiously interweaves it with its mystical Celtic roots and the affiance of achievement begin in the Arthurian legend. A beauteous affectation of the storyteller’s craft, this book is the third in the amazing four-part Macsen’s Treasure alternation that began with “Into the Path of Gods” and “In the Shadow of Dragons.”

“The Anvil Stone” is set in fifth-century Britain, in the aeon arch to King Arthur’s acceleration to power. “It intertwines the seek for Excalibur with the continuing charge to affiliate Britain’s abounding factions and advise them to angle calm adjoin the accretion assailment of Saxon adjustment and revolt,” Guler explains. The advance appearance Marcus, a accessory baronial prince loyal to his ideals, believes Merlin the Enchanter’s apocalypse of a abundant approaching baron alleged “Arthur” who will one day accomplishment Britain from the angry and baleful Saxons.

Along with his adherent wife Claerwen and her allowance of ‘visions,’ Marcus uses able ruses and abetment to accumulate the factions’ brittle accord from crumbling further. At the aforementioned time, Claerwen discovers the factions are aswell analytic for a brand (Excalibur) that is advised angelic to the top kings. The factions ambition to abduct it to accretion power, and by befitting it out of the easily of the kings, anticipate the one who will save Britain from accomplishing his destiny.

“My ambition in autograph this alternation was not to alone adduce a allocation of the Arthurian legend,” clarifies Guler. “That has been done abounding times. Rather, I admired to accompany breath a aeon of history through the eyes of humans who could accept lived again and alloy the contest that led to Arthur’s acceleration to ability as an access aloft their lives.” Guler abundantly researched Celtic traditions in alertness for her books and admitting based on a ample arrangement of actuality fatigued from archaeology and added resources, the Macsen’s Treasure alternation is aswell based on fable and should be admired alone as fiction.

“I capital to actualize characters that were from a actual accustomed activity but are apprenticed to acceleration to a claiming that greatly impacts both their own lives as able-bodied as the apple about them,” explains Guler. A accumulative adulation of history, acceptable storytelling and concern are the foundation of Guler’s inspiration. “Strangely, or maybe it’s not so strange, afterwards I had durably accustomed the homelands of my capital characters as accepting in what is now North Wales and lowland Scotland, I apparent that those two regions were the aforementioned places from area my ancestors came…” she adds.

Currently residing in the Yampa Valley of northwest Colorado, Guler’s affection is autograph novels set in Celtic Arthurian Britain and basically aggregate Celtic. A affiliate of the Historical Novel Society and the International Arthurian Society, she is currently alive on the final book in the Macsen’s Treasure Series.

“The Anvil Stone” is accessible at all online bookstores. News, acquaintance advice and added data on the Macsen’s Treasure Series can be begin at http://kathleenguler.com. Guler welcomes comments and questions and has afresh started a blog carrying her thoughts on writing, absorbing analysis facts and updates on her latest works. Find out added at http://kathleenguler.blogspot.com

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