Gerfalcon is a fantasy

Fantasy

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 novel by Leslie Barringer

Leslie Barringer

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, the first book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle. It is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval

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 France

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 called Neustria

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 (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom

Franks

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). The book was first published in 1927 by Heinemann

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 in the United Kingdom and Doubleday in the United States. Its significance was recognized by its republication in 1973 by Tom Stacey

Tom Stacey

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 in the UK and in March, 1976 by the Newcastle Publishing Company

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 in the US, as the seventh volume of its celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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 series. This Newcastle edition was reprinted twice, once by Newcastle itself in 1977 and once by Borgo Press

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in 1980.

Chapter headings of the 1927 edition:

1. Shadows at Sanctbastre.
2. Tourney at Belsaunt.
3. The moors of Nordenay.
4. The Singing Stones of Hastain.
5. The hold above Alanol.
6. Face Campscapel face death.
7. The forest of Honoy.
8. Parley at Montenair.
9. Assay towards Saulte.
10. Street of Anvils.
11. A viscount comes home.
12. Raoul's day.
13. The marshes of Marckmont.
14. The crags of Ger.