The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
Merlin 3 -- The Last Enchantment -- Mary Stewart -- (1979)
(Version 2005.11.07 -- Done)
To one who was dead
and is alive again,
who was lost,
and is found.
BOOK I -- Dunpeldyr
1
Not every king would care to start his reign with the wholesale massacre of children. This is what they whisper of Arthur, even though in other ways he is held up as the type itself of the noble ruler, the protector alike of high and lowly.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calum ...