Gerfalcon (novel)

Gerfalcon is a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer, the first book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle.

[1][2] The novel is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom).

[3] Raoul, the young heir to the barony of Marckmont (described as "a blend of elf and owl and boy") grows up to become a sensitive, intelligent young man who prefers reading and song to the so-called knightly virtues of war and slaughter.

Along the way, he falls in love, survives attempted murder, saves Red Anne (Mistress of the Witches' Coven of the Singing Stones), and is forced to join the household of the brigand Count Lorin de Campscapel, Red Anne's lover.

[4] Chapter headings of the 1927 edition: The Illustrated London News called the book "a moving story, faultlessly treated" and "a mediæval romance strongly to be recommended" which "[t]he spirit of the Middle Ages moves through.