Daggerspell. Katharine Kerr

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      HISTORICAL NOTE

      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.

COPYRIGHT

      HarperVoyager an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Grafton Books 1987

      Previously published in paperback by

       HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy 1993 (reprinted three times),

       and by Grafton 1989 (reprinted seven times)

      Copyright © Katharine Kerr 1986

      Revised edition copyright © Katharine Kerr 1993

      Cover design and illustration by Micaela Alcaino © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

      Katharine Kerr asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007375981

      Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008125295

      Version: 2019-05-17

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DEDICATION

      For my husband, Howard,

      who helped me more than even he can know.

      Without his support and loving encouragement,

      I never would have finished this book.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Note to Readers

Dedication

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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