In an age before time began when the old Gods were abroad in the Earth, Corum of the Scarlet Robe defeated the agents of chaos and cruelty and made history possible. Now a new age requires a hero. There are new lords who would be gods - Odin and Thor and Freya and Loki. And there are the descendants of Corum's Vadagh people, now called Elf-folk.
There is a portent - a great black bull sometimes seen on the horizon. The bull must be ridden by the one who possesses the Spear of Llaw Ereint. And the one who will come to possess the spear will be one who has a silver hand - it is the hand of Corum...
- ISBN10 0704310589
- ISBN13 9780704310582
- Publish Date 22 September 1973 (first published 16 April 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quartet Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English