Rhodri's Furies: Ninth-century Welsh Resistance to Viking and Saxon incursions - John Broughton - Bog

A fisherman's son, Alun ap Drystan worships his grandfather Iolyn, a renowned former warrior. The old man is worried about the future of his homeland, and to help, he sends father and son to visit a reclusive seer with Druidic blood.Speaking in riddles, the seer tells Alun the find the Battle Prince: together, they will be the saviours of Gwynedd, and that he will be a great warrior, mingling with the greatest in the land.After a chance meeting with the cattle breeder Iowerth and his son, Cadfael ap Iowerth, Alun realises that the youth's name in Old Welsh means Battle Prince: his foretold comrade. The youths soon become inseparable friends and blood brothers. But can the seer's prediction be correct?A riveting, meticulously researched historical adventure set in early medieval Wales, 'Rhodri's Furies' is the first book in John Broughton's BRETLAND TRILOGY of historical novels.