The Raid

by Randy Lee Eickhoff

Book Overview

Queen Maeve has declared war upon the province of Ulster in an effort to take possession of the Brown Bull of Cooley. Ultimately, this is an attempt to match the wealth of her husband, King Ailill of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312862385
• ISBN13: 9780312862381
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Cattle Raid of Cooley!

Eickhoff's works are all very well done. This work is no exception. He has taken the Celtic epic the Tain and dissected the work, giving it a proper and detailed treatment in telling the tales of Cuchullain, the Hound of Ulster, the single most important hero in Irish myth/history. I recommend getting all these books in the Ulster Cycle in hardback form because you will want to keep these and display them, then reread them again in a few years. Excellent work.

One of the great epics of the world

This wonderful book deserves to be on everyone's shelf. The story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley is translated and retold here in novelistic form to great effect. This story ranks up there with The Iliad and Beowulf as one of the great epics of the world.

A solid novelization

Eickhoff manages to transform one of the great epic poems in Western literature into a solidly-written novel. What it loses in poetic form it makes up for in immediacy. Not for the delicate of sensibilities, but a good introduction to the piece for those who have a hard time dealing with poetry in translation.