The Templar Knight. Jan Guillou
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Название: The Templar Knight
Автор: Jan Guillou
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780007351671
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The Templar Knight
The Crusades Trilogy
Jan Guillou
Translated by Steven T. Murray
‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’ Jacula Prudentum, 1651, no. 170
In the name of God, most benevolent, ever-merciful.
‘God is great in His glory, Who took His votary in the night to a wide and open land from the Sacred Mosque to the most distant Mosque whose precincts We have blessed, in order to show him Our sign; Verily He is all-hearing and all-seeing.’
The Holy Koran, Sura 17, Verse 1
Table of Contents
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
Al Ghouti - Arn de Gothia
Arman de Gascogne, his sergeant
Arnoldo de Torroja, Master of Jerusalem
Odo de Saint Armand, Grand Master
Siegfried de Turenne
Harald Øysteinsson
Grand Master Roger des Moulins
CHRISTIANS
Count Raymond III de Tripoli
Reynald de Châtillon
Gérard de Ridefort
King Baldwin IV
Baldwin d’Ibelin, later Baldwin V
Guy de Lusignan, later King Guy
Agnes de Courtenay
Father Louis
Heraclius
MUSLIMS
Yussuf ibn Ayyub Salah al-Din - Saladin
Fahkr - his brother
al Afdal, Saladin’s son
Ibrahim ibn Anaza
INHABITANTS OF GUDHEM MONASTERY
Abbess Rikissa
Cecilia Algotsdotter (Rosa), betrothed of Arn
Cecilia Ulvsdotter (Blanca), betrothed of Knut Eriksson
Sister Leonore
Ulvhilde Emundsdotter
Fru Helena Stensdotter
FOLKUNG CLAN
Birger Brosa, Arn’s uncle
Magnus; Arn and Cecilia’s son
Eskil Magnusson, Arn’s brother
King Knut Eriksson
Philippe Auguste, King of France
Richard the Lionheart, King of England
Babarossa, Emperor of Germany
During Muharram, the holy month of mourning, which occurred when the summer was at its hottest in the year 575 after Hijra, called Anno Domini 1177 by the infidels, God sent His most remarkable deliverance to those of His faithful He loved best.
Yussuf and his brother Fahkr were riding for their lives and right behind, shielding them from the enemies’ arrows, came the Emir, Moussa. Their pursuers, who were six in number, were steadily gaining on them, and Yussuf cursed his arrogance, СКАЧАТЬ