"Pip the orphan and Perfect the stone gargoyle face a variety of dangers when they meet a mysterious stranger who has actually heard the sound of a Witch Bell and is being chased by the Holy Hunter.".
Merlinnaus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England - pulling a sword from the stone - but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first.
In France in 1209, Pagan, now an archdeacon, takes on a new scribe named Isidore, a fifteen-year-old epileptic and an orphan, and together they try to survive the siege of Carcassonne.
Sir Bertie the Bold, a gentle, old-fashioned knight who prefers gardening to jousting, accompanies his clever son Jop on a quest for the fierce Wyvern when he needs a dragon to pose for the family coat of arms.
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.
Surveys the Germanic barbarian tribes that proliferated in Europe at the end of the Roman Empire and describes how their social life and customs formed the basis for early medieval civilization.
