“the words were singing in my head…”

“it’s fun, it’s heroic, it’s a little sexy, a little violent — and it makes you use your mind.” –William T. Paarlberg, Artist and Designer, Kittery Point, ME

“To his enormous credit, Mr. Bodkin’s verse works…the rhythmic rhyming lines soon work their own magic on the reader and create a hypnotic attachment to the story…This work is nothing like anything else you will find.” –Professor Martha Taylor, Chair of Classics, Loyola University Maryland

“He had me hooked from the outset, and I could “hear” the storyteller reciting his tale aloud, despite the fact that I was merely reading words on a page. Not since Chaucer and John Gower have I been so charmed by the form.”–Christopher Martin, International Shakespearean Director, Actor and Translator, NYC http://www.christophermartinshakespeare.com/

“… a tremendously gripping read…I purchased the book, downloaded it, and then found myself unable to put it down. The timing and word selection in the verse made it seem as though the words were singing in my head.” –Dean Emmerson, Director of Technology, Bath Schools, Bath, ME

The download includes a free 18-page glossary of the many little-known and archaic words found in the text.