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This was all Lord Merlin’s land. It was called Avalon and had been ruled by his father and his father’s father, and every serf and slave within sight of the Tor’s summit worked for Merlin.
This was all Lord Merlin’s land. It was called Avalon and had been ruled by his father and his father’s father, and every serf and slave within sight of the Tor’s summit worked for Merlin.
Kingdoms need kings, and without them they are nothing but empty land inviting a conqueror’s spears.
But that shield was held by such a man as I had never seen before; a man magnificent, a man lifted high on a great horse and accompanied by other such men; a horde of wondrous men, plumed men, armoured men, men sprung from the dreams of the Gods to come to this murderous field,
and over the men’s plumed heads there floated a banner I would come to love more than any banner on all God’s earth. It was the banner of the bear.
The horn sounded a third time, and suddenly I knew I would live, and I was weeping for joy and all our spearmen were half crying and half shouting and the earth was shuddering with the hooves of those Godlike men who...
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