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In the time of King Arthur, a young female healer resuces a wonded stranger and grows to love him ...but with their love bring pain or peace to their strife-torn Alba? Brenna of Gowrys has grown up in hiding - hunted by the O'Byrne clan, who fear her mother's dying prophecy, and by her own... read more
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Characters edit
- Lady Brenna: our heroine, heiress to the Gowrys clan
- Faol: Brenna's silver-white wolf
- Ronan O'Byrne: our hero, heir to the O'Byrne clan
- Joanna of Gowrys: Brenna's mother, Llas's slain queen from Gowrys clan
- Llas of Gowrys: Brenna's father, slain king from Gowrys clan
- Mathair Ealga: Brenna's nurse and mentor, from Gowrys clan; Joanna's cousin
- Tarlach O'Byrne: Ronan's father, king of the O'Byrne clan
- Gillis: Add a description of this character.
- Cennalath
- Alyn
- Riderch
- Vychan
- Vivianne Del Acqs
- Merlin
- Caden O'Byrne
- Enda
- Dara
- Arthur
- Daniel of Gowrys
- Murray
- Ina
- Prince Aedan
- Rory Roybal
- Bron
- Keena
- Brother Martin
- Queen Gwenhyfar
- Adam
- Angus
- Ballach
- Gwendoleu
- Heming
- Eagla
- Egan O'Toole
- Lady Rhianon
- Kella O'Toole
- Donal of Gowrys
First Sentence edit
A deadly danger lurked in the sleepy hollow. The night mist hung low above the crannog, cloaking the steep cliff that protected the fortress's back as well as the still, reflectionless water surrounding its other three sides.
Glossary edit
- Alba: Scotland
- Albion: the Isle of Britain
- Alcut/Alclyd: Dumbarton on Fifth of Clyde
- anmchara: soulmate
- arthur: title passed down from Stone Age Britain meaning "the bear" or "protector, " connected with the constellation of the Big Dipper; equivalent of Dux Bellorum and Pendragon; the given name of Aurthur, prince of Dalraida
- a stόr: darling
- Ballach: Ronan's horse, meaning "speckled"
- behoved: beholdened
- Ben Ledi: Mountain of Light, the first of the highland mountains beyond Stirling's pass
- braccae: Latin for woolen drawstring trousers or pants, either knee- or ankle-lenght
- cariad: dearest
- Carmelide: Carlisle
- Cennalath: ken'-nah-lot, Pictish king of the Orkneys
- Dux Bellorum: Latin for duke of war, commander general, see arthur
- earthways: to death/burial
- fell: rocky hill
- fodere: deceiver
- foolrede: foolishness
- Gwenhyfar: Guinevere; considered by some scholars to have a title like arthur or merlin, as well as a given name. Some scholars believe the Pictish Gwenhyfar was called Anora.
- Joseph, the: the high preist of the grail Palace on the scared Isle
- Long Dark: the winter
- mathair: mother
- merlin: title for the advisor to the king, often a prophet or seer; sometimes drudic Christian as in Merlin Emrys, or not, as Merlin Sylvester
- Merlin Emrys (Ambrosius): the prophet/seer/Celtic Christian priest descended from the Pendragon Ambrosius Aurelius, thought to be Arthur's Merlin, suggested to be buried on Bardsley Island
- Merlin Sylvester: the prophet/seer to Gwendoleu of Gwynedd's pagen court; the bard said to have gone mad after the battle of of Arthuret
- mind: remember or recall
- mo chroi: my heart
- Mountain of Light: see Ben Ledi
- nun day: noon-day meal
- Pendragon: Cymri for "head dragon," dragon being a symbol of knowledge/power, see arthur
- rath: walled keep and/or village
- sandarach: arsenic mentioned by Socrates in fourth-century BC
- souterrain: underground chamber for storage, defence, and escape
- Strighlach: srtī'-lăk; Stirling
- Sun Season: summer
- tuath: tŭth; kingdom, clan land
- widdershins: counterclockwise
Authors & Contributors edit
- Linda Windsor (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: David C.Cook
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4347-6478-2
Page Count: 351
Publisher: David C.Cook
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4347-6478-2
Page Count: 351
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: 2010921502
- Dewey: 813
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