Rats, I posted a reply then lost it!
Anyway, I read this book a while ago and found it a far more compex story than I first believed. It's interesting how you can feel sympathy for the creature because he is so totally isolated but also be repelled by his actions. He is intelligent and his love of nature is touching but he has no respect for human life.
I found it a very sad book with some harrowing parts.
Gilly
Keep you to your priestcraft, Father, there is need of a burying, and when that is done, of a nuptial mass for your king and for my lady whom he has chosen queen.'
Igraine stood within the curve of Uther's arm.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley