Dreaming the Hound (66 page)

Eburovic - Eh-boor-oh-vik. Father to Breaca and Ban, now dead.

Efnis - Eff-neesh. Dreamer of the Eceni.

Eneit - Enate. Soul-friend of Cunomar. His name means ‘spirit’.

Graine - Granya; the first ‘a’ is pronounced like the ‘o’ in bonfire. Daughter of Breaca and Caradoc.

Gunovar - Goonavar. Daughter of Gunovic and a dreamer of the Dumnonii.

Gwyddhien - G-with-i-enne. Warrior of the Silures, lover to Airmid.

Iccius - Ikk-i-ooss. Belgic slave-boy killed in an accident while enslaved by Amminios. Friend and soul-mate to Ban, now dead.

Lanis - Lan-is. Mother of Eneit, and a dreamer of the Eceni.

Luain mac Calma - Luw-ain mak Kalma. Elder of Mona and heron-dreamer. A prince of Hibernia.

Macha - Mach-ah. The ‘ch’ is soft as in Scottish ‘loch’. Ban’s mother, now dead. Macha is a derivative of the horse goddess.

Madb - Maeve. A warrior of the Hibernians.

Roman characters.

Latin is rather closer to our language, although we would pronounce the letter ‘J’ as equivalent to the current ‘Y’, ‘V would be ‘W and ‘C would be a hard ‘K’ in all cases. However, this is so rarely used that it is simpler to retain standard modern pronunciation of these letters.

*Decianus Carus - procurator of all Britannia under Nero.

Julius Valerius - officer in the auxiliary cavalry, originally with the Ala Quinta Gallorum, later the Ala Prima Thracum.

*Longinus Sdapeze - officer with the Ala Prima Thracum.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, a.k.a. Nero, emperor of Rome.

Quintus Valerius Corvus - prefect of the Ala Quinta Gallorum.

*Quintus Veranius - fourth governor of Britannia, AD 57-58.

* Seneca - adviser to Nero, emperor of Rome.

* Suetonius Paulinus - governor of all Britannia.