The Song of Giraldus

About the Book

"A fan letter. I very much enjoyed and appreciated your novel, with its splendid evocation of the medieval world–as seen through the consciousness of a historian of the time. Your sense of language has a wonderful feeling of a vanished age, and yet with a kind of modern, almost minimalist restraint. Bravo for a job well done."

Robert Rosenstone

Cal Tech, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences

About the Author

Richard M. Loomis has published several translations of medieval Welsh literature. Available from Xlibris are novels he has written in the new millennium: The Song of Giraldus presents the medieval Welsh historian, Giraldus Cambrensis, as narrator and protagonist of his own story. Ragnarsdatter, set in America at the beginning of World War II, traces the coming of age of Gloria Ragnarsdatter, who learns the ways of love on her way through high school. New House offers documents on an imaginary monastery in Wales, including poems, tales, and journals, together with an essay on the fifteenth-century Welsh poet, Guto’r Glyn.