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Katharine Kerr. Daggerspell

KATHARINE KERR. Daggerspell. New revised edition

HISTORICAL NOTE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

CONTENTS

MAPS

PRONUNCIATION NOTES

PROLOGUE. IN THE YEAR 1045

CERRGONNEY, 1052

DEVERRY, 643

DEVERRY, 1058

DEVERRY, 698

ELDIDD, 1062

ELDIDD, 1062

GLOSSARY

INCARNATIONS OF THE VARIOUS CHARACTERS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

OTHER BOOKS BY

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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Many readers and reviewers have assumed that the Deverry books take place in some sort of alternate Britain or that the people of Deverry came originally from Britain. Since a few have even, in total defiance of geography, supposed that the series takes place on that island, I thought I’d best clarify the matter.

The Deverrians emigrated from northern Gaul, the “Gallia” referred to in the text, after they spent a fair number of years under the Roman yoke but before Christianity became a religion of any note. As for their new home, Annwn, the name is Welsh and literally means “no place,” a good clue, I should think, as to its location here in our world. Later volumes in this series explain how the original group of immigrants reached their new country and tell something of the history of their settlement.

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“So it is.” Cullyn drew his sword with a flourish. “Ride for the tieryn. Well hold them off.”

As she galloped, Jill blew her horn. At last she heard Abryn’s horn close at hand. Tieryn Braedd burst out of the trees to meet her.

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