Hidden History Research

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”

Oh! Little Pig ~ A Medieval Welsh Poem

Thursday, 2 August 2018, 13:02.Reading time 16 minutes.

A poem from the BLACK BOOK OF CAERMARTHEN XVIII.

O little pig!

thou happy little pig!

Bury not thy snout on the top of the mountain;

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.