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  Porlock lives in the Beacon…when his quiet life is invaded by the return of his two wards ‘The Mitsize’ (pronounced Mitsies) Vag and Rag. They visit an old friend, who sends them on a quest to find a feather of the mythical Indigo Swan. – A journey which takes them on a search through the Solar System to Pluto’s moon Charon, where they meet the fifth dimensional Indigo Swan - who strikes a hard bargain with them – they can have a feather, but only if they destroy a tablet from the Epic of Daimanos (Gilgamesh) and hence wipe out the only record of the Swan in written human history!

   So the Swan sends them off back in time to 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (latterday Iraq) where Vag gets thrown to the lions, and Porlock has to fight a magical duel of science with an ancient Babylonian priest. Then on to pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon England, in order to look for the feather, now used as a quill. On the way, they have to hunt for the stolen Miscellany (C10th Exeter Book), and Rag is forced to join the robbers as a thief in their hideout – a Roman ruin, where a deadly confrontation with Vikings ensues…

   Will they manage to destroy the tablet? Find the Miscellany? And escape with the feather back to their own time? Read on...

               

                                                                       By S.V. Wolfland

Porlock is a story that circles around the oral-to-written juncture or the idea of a moment of inscription. It concerns ancient texts, thousands of years apart, the adventure that is history and the magic of science. It is intended both to remind readers of the value of heritage, and of that heritage’s relationship with a fragile environment.

The first Porlock book draws on The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Exeter Book, and the Viking Egilsaga, and S.V. has a performance poetry show called Widsith the Scop using these ancient poems, and is one half of storytelling company Widsith & Deor, who perform shows of Gilgamesh’s Epic and Egil’s Saga.