Gueith Camlann The Conflict at River's Curve Where Arthur and Medraut Are Overthrown: the Death Is in Britain and Ireland

"Of Arthur's Demise in the Year of the Plague War. Year 93: The strife at Camlann where Arthur and Medraut perish. There is Plague in Britain and Ireland. Many centuries later, some reckon the year was A. D. 539, others claim that it must have been 505. Some will go no closer than to say that it was before 547 and after 497. But, to the only person who mattered, it was the year 14. After two years of bad harvests, this winter was the worst in memory and the spring rains were relentless. No amount of sacrifice to any God was enough to turn the weather. Starvation weakened the population and another sickness, one that did not confine itself to the starving, crept up the coastlines and up the rivers to savage even the most remote farms. Bryne ab Haimon is a young man whose father tends a small farm in the extreme northwest of Britain. Though he is of the Votadini tribe, his home so removed from the daily politics of Dark-Age life that through the winter, his family has only heard rumors of the mysterious sickness. When a short break in the weather comes, Bryne journeys to the house of his betrothed, Etain only to be thrust into the depths of a plague-ridden populous. He finds decimated towns and he finds those who will desperately grasp at any explanation for this curse. He finds the monk Gildas the Wise who conspired to blame the curse on the Battle Lord Artgur, the Bear-Man"--Back cover.