> From: "Jeffrey Zahari" <jeff_zahari_at_...>
>A children's book I have often borne in mind for initiation customs is
>'Warrior Scarlet' by R. Sutcliffe. In this the boys (proto-Celts) come to
>their clan's Boy's House; spending a couple of years training before their
>final test--to kill a wolf by themselves.
I'd forgotten all about that book. I must go an re-read it (I think I was
about 12 at the time). Her "Sword at Sunset" is a fine Roman-Celtic
Arthurian novel too. What was the other one ... "The Lantern Bearers"?
Thom