Spell For Old Bones

"When the giants fell, old bones revived" - there is the rubric for Eric Linklater''s new story, first published in 1949. There may be no historical foundation for his tale of a fantastic war, in the First century A.D., between the giant Furbister and the abominable Od McGammon, his neighbour in the south-west of Scotland; but their quarrel - which provides a background to the engaging love-story ...