Swain's Stone

Swain's Stone by Arthur D. Howden is about hunter Swain and a mysterious stone he finds on his hunts. Excerpt: "Swain pushed on through the low, dwarf trees of the wood, trees that had been battered and shoved and bent into caricatures of themselves by centuries of booming winds. He was sure, now, that he had missed the reindeer stag at the streamlet far back beyond the scaur of Nafar, but he heard in the distance the sounding roar of the surf and so he continued…"