The Winged Man

<p>The story of Bladud the father of King Lear. A leper and a swineherd a necromancer and a wise king his memory lives on. His was a golden age of wisdom and magic where otherworld beings mingled freely with the people of this world.</p><p>Restless at the royal court the young Prince Bladud sets off to consult an oracle in the west country - a wild wooded place near a mysterious hot spring that gushes from a cave. There the priestess tells him that he will be a great king and that one day he will fly like an eagle.</p><p>When he returns to his father's hill-fort at Trinovantum Bladud's head is full of magnificent dreams... until trickery entraps him in a loveless marriage. His unquenchable thirst for knowledge sharpened by a mysterious experience at the burial mound of his forefathers takes him away from his home and wife on a dangerous journey to faraway Greece. There he meets and falls in love with a woman who has appeared to him many times already in dreams and visions...</p><p>Full of brilliant imagination this colourful fantasy draws its strength and inspiration from the strange and beautiful realms of Celtic and Greek myth and legend.</p>