pemA wheel of ravens revelled loudlyemppemOver a bitter battle of bold fightersemppemWho lost their lives and lay in mud, emppemA feast of flesh for the frenzied birds...emppbrppFrom strongAdam Bolivarstrong, balladeer extraordinaire and author of emThe Ettinfell of Beacon Hillem, comes a landmark volume of poetry that harkens back to the adventurous myths of the Anglo-Saxons and the Dark Ages...ppbrppAlliterative verse was the traditional poetic form used in Old English poems such as emBeowulfem and emThe Wandererem, as well as in Old Norse sagas and the emPoetic Eddaem of the Icelanders. Outlawed by the Normans as a symbol of nativist rebellion after their conquest of England in the year 1066, this ancient form is now all but forgotten. emA Wheel of Ravensem is the first ever collection of original verse written in the Old English alliterative style. Braiding together threads of early English paganism, folkloric elements-including a speculative pre-history of the storytelling traditi