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Timeless: Three figures loom from the gathering dark of Britain’s oldest story
This Bloody Branch
What you need to know before your trail
Three figures loom from the gathering dark of Britain’s oldest story: a queen risen from slavery, a sorceress of the moon, and flowers imprisoned in woman’s form.
Their fates are bound together by the cruelty of a magician whose hungers scar the land.
The Bloody Branch retells their story from the inside, revealing an epic not of men’s wars and conquests but of women’s pain and ecstasy, birth and transformation ― flesh, flower and blood held in animation by the eerie power of the land. Women suffer alone, but fight back together
Travel Guide
Wales
Locations are hard to map as the stories all come from the Mabinogion: A famous collection of early Welsh myths, folklore, and Celtic heroic legends compiled in Middle Welsh.
Three great heroines – slave queen Goewin, the reclusive sorceress Arianrhod, and Blodeuwedd, a woman conjured from flowers – unite to avenge themselves on the most dangerous man in ancient legend.
So, here is the illustrated map from the book:
Map from the book The Bloody Branch
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Bloody Branch
Destination/Location: Wales Author: Brigid Lowe Departure: Timeless
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