The Faerie (Prydn) were nomads with no fixed home. The Atteconi were inhabitants of Cathanesia (Caithness). Pictish tribes inhabiting the centra! and eastern lowlands of Scotland. On the River Neth between Cornwall and Devon. Corbridge, Northumberland Modern Devonshire Modern city of York About seven miles southwest of York Territory of southeast Ireland No precise site Imaginary. Ives Caithness, Scotland West of Corbridge, Northumberland. Colchester, Suffolk Southern Cornwall, near St. Legend says Arthur received death wound here. Contents The King Lies at Avalon Merlin and a Sword The Earth Is a Woman Guenevere To Wear the Crown Wheel of Shadow, Wheel of Sun The Ghost Dancers King of a Hundred Battles Modred and a Grail Rest You Gentle, Sleep You Sound 1 3 39 91 138 192 229 273 320 360 Celtic/Roman Site Modern Site or Vicinity (where known} Astolat Avalon Caer Legion Caerieon Cair Daun Camelot Camlann Camulodunum Castle Dore Cathanesia Cilumum Corstopitum Dyfneint Eburacum Kaelcacaestir Leinster Mount Badon Neth Dun More Taixali, Venicones and Votadini Verulamium The Wall of Hadrian Ynnis Witrin Imaginary seat of power, Dyfneint Imaginary Chester, Flintshire Southern Wales, near Llandaff and Cardiff Doncaster, Lincolnshire Imaginary Near Carlisle, Cumberlandshire. It should have happened this way, it could have, and perhaps it did. Assembled on one stage in one drama, they make a magnificent cast. That they didn't all live at the same time is beside the point.
Guenevere is probably as historical as the rest like diem, she is remembered with kindness or severity, depending, as Arthur notes, on who is telling the tale. Peredur was actually a prince who ruled at York. Trystan appears to have been his son, though I have kept the usual form of the legend. Almost certainly he succeeded Ambrosius as overlord of the Britons.Geraint was indeed Prince of Dyfneint, Marcus Conomori was overlord of Cornwall. Arthur is as historical as Lincoln or Julius Caesar, merely less documented. Margaret Murray, whose books The Witch-Cult in Western Europe and God of the Witches (Oxford University Press, 1971, 1973) retrieved the fairy folk from moonlit legend and restored them to history where they belonged. For the picture of Morgana and her people, I drew heavily on the pioneering work of Dr. For this, I'm deeply indebted to John Morris's lucid and fascinating The Age of Arthur (Scribner's, 1973) and Jean Markale's unorthodox King Arthur, King of Kings (Gordon & Cemonesi, 1976), translated by Gordon Cremonesi. Acknowledgments Firelord is a fantasy, though I've attempted to stretch an elastic legend over the bone of historical fact regarding the reigns of Vortigern, Ambrosius and Arthur. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 0987654321 A Kind of Dedication To Quackenabush and Diavolo, who suffered with this, believed in it, read, cared, cheered and encouraged, stuck pins in sinister dolls, heard confessions, gave absolution and usually paid for lunch. Bantam Books, Inc., 666 Fifth Avenue, New York. Paieni and Trademark Office and in other countries. Its trademark, consisting of the words "Bantam Books" and the portrayal of a rooster, is Registered in U.S. ISBN 4-X Published simultaneously in the United Stales and Canada Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, Inc. For information address: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 245 Park Avenue. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in pan, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission.
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