As the Stone Age slowly gives way to the age of Bronze, a proud warrior clan faces the challenge of a new life in an alien land.
Led by the great chieftain Fomor, once called the Wolf of the Western Tribes, the clan MacLir knows the limits of stone against the strange new weapons of their sworn enemy, Nemed MacAgnomian. And so the people of the Ax have settles in the fens of Albion, exchanging flint weapons for farm implements, trading the ways of the warrior for the path of peace. But prosperity has not followed on the heels of their decision, and many in the clan urge their lord to become the Wolf once more . . . or threaten to rise up against him.
It is Fomor’s firstborn son, Balor, headstrong, and defiant, who receives the sign of the gods that the time of the Wolf is at hand—as the cruel Nemed and his raiders sail toward Albion's shores to wipe the clan MacLir from the face of the earth. And it is Balor who will take up the forbidden sword Retaliator to avenge the past . . . .
- ISBN10 0856281948
- ISBN13 9780856281945
- Publish Date 26 July 1990 (first published 1 January 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 December 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Aidan Ellis Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 484
- Language English