![]() ![]() RT: What first attracted you to Arthurian legend as a subject for story-telling? Without them, what would become of the Arthurian dream? We shall all miss her, for she too was one of a shining company, the storytellers who are Taliesin's successors. I had intended to visit Sutcliff again to update and expand the interview. in North Britain by the bard Aneirin to commemorate a band of British warriors who fell in battle against the Angles, is of special interest in that it provides us with the earliest mention of Arthur's name and Sutcliff's novel preserves the Arthurian echoes. Her later novels were set in the more recent past, but she returned to Dark Age Britain for her last novel, The Shining Company (London: Bodley Head), which is based upon the Gododdin. ![]() She has also retold the Arthurian legend with clarity and elegance in Tristan and Iseult (1971), The Light Beyond the Forest (1979), The Sword and the Circle (1981), and The Road to Camlann (1981). She introduces us to Arthur in The Lantern Bearers (1959), a book for younger readers that won the Carnegie Medal, and in Sword at Sunset (1963) she continues his tale in his own words. Though perhaps best known for historical novels set in Roman Britain, such as Eagle of the Ninth (1954), Rosemary Sutcliff has written some of the finest contemporary recreations of the Arthurian story. I found the insights so intriguing that I decided to undertake this series of interviews with Arthurian authors. ![]() As I describe in the Afterword, I interviewed Rosemary Sutcliff for the periodical Avalon to Camelot back in 1986. ![]()
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