I was surprised to learn, not so long ago, that Holdstock was so young – still in his early 30s when the book first appeared. By setting the "contemporary" aspect of the book in the years after the second world war, Holdstock successfully splices the ancient and the modern: the modern characters, weary and wounded from a technological global conflict, find a hidden corner of something old and magical buried in the garden of the country they had been fighting to defend. The Urscumug is twice the height of a human and is a malevolent and ancient variation on the woodwose.Mythago Wood transports us back to an age when Britain still had genuinely wild places. The Urscumug was generated purposely by George Huxley. Urscumug This man-boar male mythago is a representation of the first hero from earliest myth. He is also known by the name Freya which literally means "friend." Twigling This male mythago has red hair and a crown of twigs. Sorthalen This male mythago is a shaman or necromancer who can create and control mythagos, including sylphs, or air elementals. Each of Gwyneth's incarnations has a varied personality, some dangerous and others alluring, and differing relations with the members of the Huxley family and Harry Keeton. Guiwenneth of the Green (also Gwyneth) This female mythago (usually evoked as an older teenager) is from the Bronze Age and appears in various incarnations throughout time, including protomyth, a girl from Roman Britain, a manifestation of the Earth goddess, young Celtic warrior princess and Guinevere. The Fenlander and Hawks serve as Christian's personal bodyguards as he travels to the heart of Ryhope wood. The Fenlander This male mythago is a skilled warrior who commands a group of mythago warriors known as 'Hawks'. Cuchulainn's dog leads Stephen to the buried corpse of an early incarnation of the Guiwenneth mythago. Mythagos Cúchulainn This male mythago is a hunter with a large hunting dog who encounters Stephen outside Oak Lodge.
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