Full text: "Flowering Dagger"
Fandom being what it is, I feel certain that at least one of you out there has wondered how Rosemary Sutcliff would have written a Bronze Age Romeo and Juliet-cum-Oedipus Rex-if you know what I mean scenario, and you, hypothetical but no doubt real reader, need wonder no longer. For it is a thing that exists.
"Flowering Dagger", a short story from 1977, is readable in full in the Google Books preview of John Matthews's Within the Hollow Hills: An Anthology of New Celtic Writing (1994). It containsconsensually dodgy fertility rites, ritual infanticide, incest, suicide, and perhaps most shockingly of all, almost a sex scene.I'm not kidding about the Romeo and Oedipus thing, guys, this isn't a cheery story. Happy holidays!
(PS: If Google Books won't let you preview this book, tell me, and then... watch this space.)
"Flowering Dagger", a short story from 1977, is readable in full in the Google Books preview of John Matthews's Within the Hollow Hills: An Anthology of New Celtic Writing (1994). It containsconsensually dodgy fertility rites, ritual infanticide, incest, suicide, and perhaps most shockingly of all, almost a sex scene.I'm not kidding about the Romeo and Oedipus thing, guys, this isn't a cheery story. Happy holidays!
(PS: If Google Books won't let you preview this book, tell me, and then... watch this space.)