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332: 25: 293:, will help bring them back. Unfortunately, neither side has anything of much worth to trade. At a reception in the Heroes' Hall, Age-Nor is attacked by Ír, while Milesios is asleep and unaware. Amergin uses his bardic talent to entrance Ír, thus saving Age-Nor. 300:. After a series of mishaps and bad decisions, it is eventually decided that a group of the Gaelicians, led by the Sons of the Mil, will settle this land. The tribe builds a series of ships with the help of Sakkar, and set sail. 296:
Later in the novel, Age-Nor rewards Amergin, despite the bard's vehement protests, by giving him a servant, a shipwright named Sakkar, and regaling him with a tale of a fabled land to the north,
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of the Galicians, and his brothers; Éremón, Colptha, Éber Finn, Donn, and Ír - all sons of Milesios. After years of declining prosperity, the Gaelicians hope that the Phoenician traders, led by
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Official tagline: "The sweeping historical tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made the Emerald Isle their own."
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In the 4th century BC a group of Gaelic speaking people living in the northwest of
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When they arrive on Ierne, they are confronted by the mysterious
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traders unexpectedly arrives and gives hope to the tribe.
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Morgan Llywelyn
Jim Fitzpatrick
Historical fantasy
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN
0-395-35352-1
OCLC
10711745
historical fantasy
Morgan Llywelyn
Galicians
Ireland
Amergin
bard
Sons of the Mil
Lebor Gabála Érenn
Iberia
Phoenician
druid
bard
Age-Nor
Ierne

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