Review: Ballad Of The Nameless Traveler by Tomek Piorkowski
The Nameless Traveler wanders a fantasy world with various exotic kingdoms, just in time to save the day. Written more like the Gospels, as a hearsay remembered, it is a fresh way of tackling the genre of the myth, and you can imagine the story being told around a campfire with exaggerations and embellishments, often added into the verse here. Or maybe they happened! It’s for the reader to decide if the hero really did catch arrows with his bare hands…
I studied quite a bit of Anglo Saxon poetry at school, and especially enjoyed the verse Beowulf, an alliterate […]