Excerpt from work in progress -- a novel titled The Thieving, about the theft of the Book of Kells.
A young monk, from a warrior family, sneaks off from the Kells Monastery to do some hunting:
He struck out north, awkward at first, running the knots out of his legs, stumbling over tussock or brock sett. But soon the rhythms of his steps fell in
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