Rain is a Song without Lyrics is a story that could have happened;
the descriptions of physical anthropology and archaeology and the real
accounts of Ireland’s entangled history and the Viking world connect
this fiction with real events, the traces of which are found by the
author beneath the Irish rain.
The story is born in the mud of cold Ireland in 2003, where the
author worked in an archaeological excavation. After a thousand years of
burial, he opened up the ground with his hands and what he found moved
him so immensely that he began to feel connected to those mysterious
skeletal remains that had one day been a person, who loved and was
loved, like any one of us. Rain is a Song without Lyrics is a story
that could have been, but wasn’t, although the facts that are invented
or discovered along the way do not disappoint. The truth of events does
not matter as much as what we feel, and in a way our feelings can lead
us to the truth.