anglo-saxon period, 449-1066

In the year 450, while the last of the Roman auxiliaries leave Britain in the face of threatening invaders, a young legionnaire named Aquila chooses to stay and fight for his native land.

Gwyna is forced to flee her village, but when she is discovered hiding in the woods by Myrddin, a bard, he swears to protect her as long as she agrees to bind herself to his service while he transforms young Arthur into a heroic king.

After the death of her mother, Aethelflaed of Mercia, seventeen-year-old Aelfwyn flees imprisonment by her uncle King Edward and, in the guise of a youthful bard, plays her part in the resolution of the tangled political enmities of tenth century Britain.

Now chief of Dun Alyn, fifteen-year-old Ilena disgraces herself on the battlefield and, while subsequently exiled from her people, becomes involved in a plan to rescue King Arthur from his Saxon captors.

In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons.

In the year 450, while the last of the Roman auxiliaries leave Britain in the face of threatening invaders, a young legionnaire named Aquila chooses to stay and fight for his native land.

Thirteen-year-old Guinevere learns more about her destiny when she accompanies her aunt and uncle to an important council of Welsh kings and finds that she has a powerful enemy in the High King's sister Morgan.

Analyzes Anglo-Saxon life and attitudes through an examination of surviving prose and poetry, sculpture, jewelry, and architecture.