Sublime

It was no wonder, I thought, that already in that hundred years it had become a thing of legend. It was easy to believe that the old smith, Weland himself, who was old before the Romans came, might have made this last artefact before he faded with the other small gods of wood and stream and river, into the misty hills, leaving the crowded valleys t

The Eagle and the Raven, and it was a historical novel by a writer called Pauline Gedge.