Beltane the Smith (Annotated)

Beltane the Smith is a richly coloured medieval romance of dispossession, hidden nobility, and moral awakening. Its hero, raised at the forge, discovers that strength must be tempered by mercy as surely as iron by fire. Farnol writes in a deliberately archaic, courtly idiom, blending the chivalric revival of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods with the popular adventure tradition of Scott, Du...