Poetry of the Fabled Gable of Roman Britain: Two British Yuletyde Myths For Christmasse Tyme: The Hollow Vale

Two Yuletide myths rise from the misted orchards and tidal marshes of Roman Britain.

The Hollow Vale: Poetry of the Fabled Gable of Roman Britain is a short companion volume set within the wider Tharion Cycle—a lyrical descent into a Britain that remembers itself before conquest, before forgetting, before silence.

In “Perdix: A Partridge in a Pear Tree,” an ancient sentinel of the land is called to witness a sacrifice that will bind him to the fate of Britannia itself. As the winter solstice hangs heavy over Glastonbury Tor, druids, ley-lines, and the Wyrd converge in a vision of loyalty, loss, and the first shadow of the Roman curse.

In “Caradoc and Brannoc: Two Turtle Doves,” a father recounts an old river-myth to his son during the uneasy peace of Roman rule. What begins as fireside folklore reveals a deeper betrayal—of kinship, of trade, and of the sacred balance between land and people—marking the moment when loyalty fled westward and never returned.

Written as fictive translations from lost Tharionese runes and monastic scrolls, these tales blend archaic prose, devotional poetry, and mythic history into a quiet, wintry meditation on memory, faith, and guardianship.

This volume also includes a preview chapter from The Sundered Land, inviting readers further into the Hollow Vale Universe.

This is not a true tale.
But somewhere in the mists of Somerset, it remembers one.