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HERE BE DRAGONS
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ALSO BY SHARON KAY PENMAN
The Sunne in Splendour
Falls the Shadow
The Reckoning
HERE BE
SHARON KAY PENMAN
Ballantine Books New York
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Copyright ┬й 1985 by Sharon Kay Penman
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by
Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New
York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of
Canada Limited, Toronto.
This edition published by arrangement with Henry Holt
and Company.
Maps by Anita Karl and Jim Kemp
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-90026
ISBN: 0-345-38284-6
Cover design by Georgia Morrissey
Cover art by Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Effects of Good Government, fragment.
Fresco, 1337-1340/The Granger Collection
Manufactured in the United States of America First Ballantine Books Edition:
June 1993
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To my parents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I
1. WOULD like to thank the following people for their support and
encouragement and understanding: My parents. Julie McCaskey Wolff. My agent,
Molly Friedrich of the Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency. My dear friend Cris
Arnott, who helped me to track down the elusive Richard Fitz Roy. Betty Rowles
and Jean and Basil Hill, who showed me so many kindnesses during my research
trips to Wales. Olwen Caradoc Evans and Helen Ramage, who shared with me their
knowledge and love of Welsh history. Above all, my editor at Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, Marian Wood. And lastly, the staffs of the National Library of
Wales, the British Library, the Caernarfon Archives, the University College of
North Wales Library, the research libraries of Cardiff, Llangefni, and
Shrewsbury, the Brecknock Borough Library, the County Archives Office in Mold,
and in the United States, the University of Pennsylvania Library.
PROLOGUE
THEIRS was a land of awesome grandeur, a land
of mountains and moorlands and cherished myths. They called it Cymru and
believed themselves to be the descendants of Brutus and the citizens of
ancient Troy. They were a passionate, generous, and turbulent people, with but