Welcome to Tegen's World
I wrote Star Dancer partly by sitting in a reconstructed Iron Age village at the Peat Moors Visitor's Centre, near Glastonbury, and daydreaming what life must have been like in the Iron Age. I even tried dreaming up some recipes using authentic ingredients. (Well, everyone at Macmillan wanted to know what Griff's honey-cakes tasted like!)
For the recent West Country launch of Star Dancer, the Peat Moors centre kindly let us use their village. Some friendly druids turned up, (Bruce and Ernie) my good friend Charlotte dressed as Tegen and danced for us.
Here are some photos of the day, taken by Andy Manns. I hope you enjoy them and can see just how exciting Tegen's world is!
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Drumming was important for ritual and magic in the Iron Age.
An Iron Age Weaving loom.
Dancing with two real-life druids playing!
Ernie, another real druid lighting a beeswax candle as Tegen would have done.
This is the view Gilda had across the Winter Seas to Glastonbury Tor. It was all flooded in those days
Charlotte Murray dancing 'Tegen'
The Iron Age people believed their enemy's heads could protect their houses.
My daughter and a Bruce, a real-life druid playing at the launch of Star Dancer.