The Firedrake Author:Cecelia Holland The Firedrake is both a legendary dragon and Halley's comet, whose first legendary appearance in 1066 was a portent of the Norman conquest of Britain. Cecelia Holland depicts this tempetuous era through the travels of Laeghaire of the Long Road, an Irish mercenary whose journeys from Thuringia, to Flanders, and finally to England with William th... more »e Conqueror. She tells her story with inspired simplicity; Laeghaire's loves, battles, boastings and braveries might have happened yesterday -- or today.« less