After encountering a noble group of knights, she sets herself the task of joining their company, makes a name for herself fighting fierce bandits, and must eventually lead a quest entangled with her own supernatural origins. The story follows an initially-nameless girl, later calling herself Peretur, growing up with her mother in the wild before seeking adventure. Fresh, poetic, and sensuous, Nicola Griffith’s Spear recaptures what’s wild and strange in those stories and their sources-or, rather, doesn’t capture at all, but lets it stay free and secretive, lets us see it running off the page and into a wider world. So it’s either an odd or an apt time to recommend a new entry in King Arthur stories, much-reinterpreted and pieced together from older traditions as those legends are. We are surely-hopefully-nearing some kind of peak of cultural reboot fatigue, awash as we are in retellings, re-adaptations, and perpetually rebooting expanded cinematic universes.
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