When the Grey King died, the Storm God snuffed out the fire and the sea stole his throne. The Grey King is a contemporary fantasy novel by Susan Cooper, published almost simultaneously by Chatto & Windus and Atheneum in 1975. From Nagga's bones he made his hall, the Grey King's Hall, which he heated with Nagga's living fire. House Greyjoy of Pyke claims descent from him. He supposedly wore robes of woven seaweed and a tall pale crown made from Nagga's teeth. The Grey King was a legendary ironborn King of the Iron Islands. He reigned for a thousand years with a mermaid as his wife and plotted his war against the Storm God. The A Song of Ice and Fire novels give more detail about the Grey King's life.

Unable to overpower one another, they held the first Kingsmoot to elect the strongest as their king. His 100 sons slaughtered each other until only 16 remained. After his death, the Storm God tried to erase his memory, but the ironborn still sing songs about him. There is a Welsh legend about a harp of gold, hidden within a certain hill, that will be found by a boy and a white dog with silver eyes - a.

Legend has it that he also took a mermaid as his wife and lived for a thousand years, stealing fire from the Storm God and carving the first ship from Ygg, a demonic tree that feasted on flesh. In this story eleven year old Will Stanton, who is last in a line of wizards known as the Old Ones, is sent on a quest to recover a talisman of power - a golden. But an illness has robbed Will of nearly all his knowledge of the Old Ones, and. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers - six noble riders who have slept for centuries. Blessed by the Drowned God, the Grey King was said to have waged war against the Storm God himself for a thousand years and slain Nagga, the first sea dragon, using its bones to build his hall. With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid.

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