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I recently read "Hekla's Children" by James Brogden. It's a 2017 horror novel where a demigod type of entity from the Bronze Age becomes involved in modern day life through a rift in time. The tagline is, "Four children disappeared. Only one returned."
After the disappearance from the tagline, which happens right away, the precipitating event for the rest of the book is the discovery of a bog mummy in a large English park. Between the anthropologist main character and the folklore that Brogden has created, the Bronze Age is everywhere in the book.
About halfway through, the nature of the book totally changes. I don't want to say what I mean, because it would be great if you decided to check the book out for yourself. James Brogden really zagged on me with story choices that I ended up really loving.
Today, my partner and I watched Max Miller's (Tasting History's) new video about Stonehenge. He talks about the remnants of foods, found by researchers, in and around the iconic Bronze Age monument. Scientists know now that both food and stone were brought to the Stonehenge site from hundreds of overland miles away.
He marveled at how people moved these enormous stones before the invention of the wheel, the same as the contemporary pyramids in ancient Egypt. And I thought of Brogden's book, where one plot point is that a modern person brings a modern technology to this pocket dimension of the past to try to bring it forward centuries or even millennia.
I'll mention a bonus book relating to ancient and folkloric Britain! It's "The Bright Sword" by Lev Grossman, which I read and loved last year. Like the Blues Brothers, King Arthur's surviving Knights of the Round Table are forced by circumstances to get their band back together.
Take care, and I hope you can have a peaceful week.