Simultaneously, Wales is slowly falling under the control of the invading Normans and King William the Red has given his ruthless barons control of the land. He is sentenced to death by hanging unless he delivers King Raven and his band of cohorts to Raven's enemies. Scarlet is captured and imprisoned, however, for being a follower of the rebel, Raven. After he fulfilled his quest and proved himself a skilled and loyal companion, Will joined the heroic archer and his men. Scarlet Īfter he lost everything he owned, forester Will Scarlet embarked on a search for King Raven, whose exploits had already become legendary. The book was dedicated to the Schloss Mittersill Community in Austria, which he and his wife were part of for a couple of years. Through the suffering of his pride-torn soul and the land of his ancestors being destroyed, Bran realized the dangerous paths through which his ambition was drawn and he soon succumbed to his fate. Bran needed to find a way to make it his own if he was to survive. There, in the primeval forest of the Welsh borders, danger surrounded him, for this woodland is a living, breathing entity with mysterious powers and secrets. Hunted like an animal by Norman invaders, Bran ap Brychan, heir to the throne of Elfael, abandoned his father's kingdom and fled to the greenwood. The King Raven series continued his themes of reimagining popular mythology into more authentic and gritty settings, which began with his Pendragon Cycle. The trilogy consists of three books named Hood, Scarlet, and Tuck. Lawhead relocates Robin Hood from Sherwood Forest in Nottingham to Wales, and sets the story in the late eleventh century, after the Battle of Hastings and to coincide with the Norman invasion of Wales and the struggles the Cymry (Welsh) people against the Normans, and the political intrigue of medieval Britain.

The King Raven Trilogy is a series of historical novels by American writer Stephen R.

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