The Grey King

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THE GREY KING

I have read the book ”The Grey King” by Susan Cooper. It took long time because the book was quite tough to read. It was written in hard English.
It is a fantasy book, about the struggle between good and evil.
In the beginning of the book a boy named Will Stanton wakes up from a long illness. He goes to visit his relatives in the north of Wales. There he meets a strange boy names Bran and his white dog Cafall. Then the struggle between good and evil starts. For Will is not an ordinary boy, he is the one who can save the world from the Dark, he is the last-born of the old ones, who serves the light. And suddenly he remembers something he heard when he was sick:

”On the day of the dead, when the year too dies,
must the youngest open the oldest hills
Through the door of the birds, where the breeze breaks.
There fire shall fly from the raven boy,
And the silver eyes that see the wind,
And the light shall have the harp of gold.

By the pleasant lake the sleepers lie,
On Cadfan´s Way where the kestrels call;
Though grim from the Grey King shadows fall,
yet singing the harp shall guide.
To break their sleep and bid them ride.

When light from the lost land shall return,
Six sleepers shall ride, six signs shall burn,
And where the midsummer tree grows tall,
By Pendragon´s sword the D...