As the girl grows, she develops the ability to move unseen and to communicate with animals. Elen implies that the girl is the daughter of one of the Tuath, and that Elen stole Dagda's Cauldron before fleeing into the wilderness with her daughter. Elen tells the girl stories about the Tuath Dé and their treasures. In Ystrad Tywi, an unnamed girl lives with her mother Elen. It also draws heavily on Celtic and European mythos. According to a review in Strange Horizons, the Welsh orthography of several characters' names, including Gwenhwyfar and Myrddyn, conjure a "Celtic Arthur", providing a geographic explanation for the presence of the Irish Tuath Dé. The book draws on Arthurian mythos, but makes the character of Percival a woman. It uses a similar setting, being placed in a region corresponding to Northumbria, during a period in which the English were being converted to Christianity. Griffith wrote Spear while taking time off of writing a sequel to her 2013 novel Hild. The idea for the book originally came about after Griffith was invited to contribute to Sword Stone Table, an anthology of Arthurian retellings from Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington. It is a queer feminist retelling of the myth of Percival and the Holy Grail. Spear is a 2022 fantasy novella by Nicola Griffith.
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