True to Bardic Tradition Arthurian Expert Refuses to Categorize New Book

CAERLEON, Wales, May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ If you've ever been so blessed as to visit the remote north of Wales and have an old farmer give you his village's folklore; you walked away feeling as if you've either just received the biggest yarn ever spun or the most carefully packaged and authentic history lesson ever presented.

Or both!

This is not by accident. After fifteen hundred years and wave after unrelenting wave of invasion, the Welsh developed a system of historical preservation through encryption. This is why their great literature features talking dragons and flying spoons in one sentence and meticulously accurate genealogies, cultural dress, weaponry and even researchable leisure time activities such as ancient board games in the next.

The Bards (ancient poets, historians and advisors) snubbed their would be conquerors and kept their histories alive in this fashion.

With careful and intentional homage to this method, ancient and medieval Welsh history, folklore and literary expert Zane Newitt refuses to lend genre to his upcoming blockbuster, The Arthuriad Volume One, The Mystery of Merlin.

Is it Historical Fiction? The book neither confirms nor denies. Newitt just assumes authority over certain matters and states them as so. Just like Taliesin or some Bard of old.

Is it Fantasy? Encounters with cringe worthy Faeire beings and his introduction to Morgaine Le Fae's 'primal witch' suggest so. But he won't comment.

Is it Romance? Anytime Lancelot, Guinevere and Arthur are in ink, how can it not be?

Is it Religion? The ancient Celts were obssessed with spiritual matters and the afterlife. Add the conflict of Romanism versus the Primitive Church of the Britons and the book belongs in the Religous Studies section at your local bookstore. And yet doesn't.

Newitt's refusal to cateogrize, label and otherwise paint himself into a literary corner has empowered the author to give the Arthurian Legend a fresh injection of life after more than a generation or more of stale offerings. What he has produced surpases genres, pays ode to the Bards (and to Wales) and can receive the most complimentary categorization available; Arthurian Literature.

The anthology is highly anticipated and Zane's objective of making it to the Mount Rushmore of Arthurian titans such as Sir Thomas Mallory, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Tennyson kicks off this fall with the first installment.

The Arthuriad Volume One, The Mystery of Merlin will be released on September 3, 2017.

Media Contact: Zane Newitt, Author Zane Newitt, 9703667476, Arthuriad@excalibur-DDPM.com

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