The Seven Songs of Merlin
core novel 1997 The Lost Years of Merlin
Record
| First published | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (10,986 ratings, collected 2026-09-23) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399230196 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
To save his mother's life, the young Merlin must master the Seven Songs of Wizardry, ancient arts inherited from his grandfather, and retrieve a healing elixir from the spirit realm. The quest sends him past a deadly ogre and other trials as he learns to see "not with his eyes, but with his heart," while also working to heal the island of Fincayra from a spreading darkness.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Lost Years of Merlin
- Series: The Lost Years of Merlin core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: T. A. Barron
Notes
- From the series record (The Lost Years of Merlin): The original, complete five-book pentalogy (1996-2000); the opening arc of the author's larger 13-book Merlin Saga. The later 'Merlin's Dragon' trilogy (2008-2011) and subsequent trilogies continue the wider saga but are a separate, later-published continuation, not part of this closed pentalogy, and are out of scope for this admission.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Lost Years of Merlin: position 2 of 5: previous The Lost Years of Merlin (1996) · next The Fires of Merlin (1998)
Sources
- Lost Years of Merlin series - Wikipedia
- The Merlin Saga Guide (author's own site, PDF)
- Merlin Book 2: The Seven Songs - Wikipedia
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