Summary:

Taken from the Preface: 'The period when the events narrated in the following Poem happened, or are supposed to have happened, was soon after the introduction of Christianity into Britain and its neighbouring Isles. The frame-work of the Poem, if I may be permitted to use the expression, is composed of three of the principal ceremonies of the Druids, in illustrating which my intention was to depict the struggle arising in the breast of a young convert to the pure principles of Christianity, in consequence of her enthusiastic attachment to a noble being of her own race'.