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Katharine Kerr. Daggerspell

KATHARINE KERR. Daggerspell

HISTORICAL NOTE

COPYRIGHT

NOTE TO READERS

DEDICATION

CONTENTS

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PRONUNCIATION NOTES

PROLOGUE. IN THE YEAR 1045

CERRGONNEY, 1052

DEVERRY, 643

DEVERRY, 1058

DEVERRY, 698

ELDIDD, 1062

ELDIDD, 1062

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GLOSSARY

INCARNATIONS OF THE VARIOUS CHARACTERS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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New revised edition

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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The folk of Deverry have always been the restless sort. In the old days of the Dawntime the ancestors wandered thousands of miles before they settled the old kingdom, Devetia Riga, which was part of a faraway land called Gallia. The bards still tell many a tale of how the ancestors fled the encroaching Rhwmanes and sailed across a vast ocean under the leadership of King Bran to find the Western Isles. They rode all over the Isles, too, before King Bran saw the omen of the white sow that told him where to found the holy city of Dun Deverry. Even during Jill’s time, there were still people who lived more on the roads than at home—priests on pilgrimages, young men riding from one lord to another in hopes of finding a place in a warband, and, of course, silver daggers. After a few weeks of riding with her father, Jill realized that the lure of the road had caught her, too. There was always something new to see, someone new to meet; she wondered how she’d ever endured being confined to one small village.

Since Cullyn had plenty of coin, Jill was surprised when he began to look for another hire. As they rode aimlessly east through Cerrgonney, he was always asking for news of feuds and border wars.

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