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Ygerna - Mother of Arthur

Places in Eriu(Ireland):

The five provinces of Eriu:

Laigin in the Southeast (contemporary Leinster)

Mumu in the Southwest

Connachta in the West

Ulaid in the North (contemporary Ulster)

Midhe in the central East

Ard Ladrann - Courtown Harbour near Gorey

Bend Atair - Dublin

Brega - A sub-province of Midhe, inland from the middle of Ireland on the east coast

Bruig na Boyne - Newgrange

Cashel - Cashel

Cruachu - Royal seat in Connachta (Rathcroghan, Roscommon)

Dun Ailinne - Near Kilcullen

Druim Dara - Kildare

Erain Sea - Irish Sea

Midhe - The middle of Eriu, an area surrounding present-day Dublin

Rath Bile - Rathvilly

Rath Inber - Arklow

Rath na Riogh - The main seat of kings at Tara

Sidhe ol Femuin - Hill of the Sidhe east of Cashel (Slieveaman)

Slane - Slane

Tara - Tara

Places in Britain:

Abona - Sea Mills on the coast near Bristol

Aquae Sulis - Bath

Caer Baddon - Little Solsbury Hill northeast of Bath

Caer Custoeint - Cadbury Camp west of Bristol

Caer Guinnet - Hill fort south of Winchester (Venta)

Caer Gwent - Capital of Gower, near Caer Leon (Caerwent)

Caer Leon - Caerleon

Calleva - Silchester

Cambodunum - Outlane, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

Ceint - Kent

Celliwig - Castle Killibury, Cornwall (northeast of Wadebridge)

Corinium - Cirencester

Cunetio - Mildenhall, Wiltshire

Demetia - Southwest Wales

Din Eidyn - Edinburgh

Dortrig - Sub-kingdom of Dumnonia, roughly equivalent with eastern Devon / western Somerset

Dumnonia - Present day Cornwall, Devon and Somerset

Dyn Draithou - South Cadbury

Dyn Tagell - Tintagel

Ergyng - Kingdom east of Gower

Glevum - Gloucester

Gododdin - Southeast part of Scotland

Gower - Southeast Wales

Gwynedd - Northeast Wales

Island of Vectis - Isle of Wight

Isca Dumnoniorum - Exeter

Lansyen - Hill fort north of Fowey in Cornwall

Lindinis - Ilchester

Londinium - London

Moridunum - Carmarthen, Wales, civitas capital of Demetia

Noviomagus - Chichester

Portus Adurni - Portchester

Rheged - Kingdom in the area of northwest England and southwest Scotland

Sabrina - Severn (Estuary and river)

Venedotia - Latin word for Gwynedd (Northwest Wales)

Venta / Venta Belgarum - Winchester

Verulamium - St. Albans

Voliba - Fowey

Ynys Witrin - Glastonbury

Places in Armorica (Brittany):

Bro Leon - Province in the northwest part of Armorica

Caer Brioc (east of Leonis) - St. Brieuc

Caer Haes - Carhaix

Domnonia - Province in the northeast part of Armorica

Karke - Seat of Kaedin, brother of the Yseult of the White Hands, south of Caer Brioc

Kemper - Quimper

Leonis - Seat of Riwallon in Bro Leon (St. Pol de Leon)

Map of Fifth Century Britain and Ireland

About the author

A former assistant professor of English in the picturesque town of Freiburg on the edge of the Black Forest, Ruth Nestvold has given up theory for imagination. She has since replaced her university career with a small software localization business, and the Black Forest with the parrots of Bad Cannstatt, where she lives with her fantasy, her family, her books, and no cats in a house with a turret. Her fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including
Asimov's, F&SF, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Scifiction
, and Gardner Dozois's
Year's Best Science Fiction
. Her work has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel
Yseult
appeared in translation as
Flamme und Harfe
with the German imprint of Random House, Penhaligon, in 2009, and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian. She maintains a web site at
http://www.ruthnestvold.com
.