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The second novelized retelling of the life of King Wenceslas that I have read recently - the first being Mildred Corell Luckhardt's excellent Good King Wenceslas - Cecil Maiden's A Song for Young King Wenceslas is an engrossing, well-written tale. I was immediately involved in the story, upon picking it up, and happily read it in one sitting. Maiden is clear in his brief foreword that his story is a blend of fact and fiction, and I came away with a number of questions about which was which, in his book. Was Bishop Paul based on a real person? The only "Gradiskas" I know of are in Croatia or Bosnia. What about the noble County Rupert of Adelbord? Clearly Wenceslas' immediate family members were based on fact, as was Henry Fowler, Duke of Saxony and King of East Francia. The latter is a benevolent figure in the story, and his