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When we think of King Arthur, we picture him with his magical sword, Excalibur. But where did the sword come from? In Mists of Avalon, we are told that its metal came from the stars, but not who made it into a sword. In Sword of Avalon, the story of its first forging is told.
It is the end of the Bronze Age. Changing weather patterns are devastating Northern Europe. It is an age of migrations and destructions, in which men struggle to save what they can. Anderle, the Lady of Avalon, strives to preserve the ancient wisdom, but her visions show her a future in which all will be lost unless she can save her cousin’s infant child, the "Son of a Hundred Kings". He is the hero destined to bring order to the land, wielding a sword from the stars. But even if the boy can be saved, who will forge this sword? The fates of Anderle and her daughter Tirilan and the young prince Mikantor, all depend on a bronze-smith from distant Tiryns in Greece, itself about to be overrun by barbarian hordes. As hammer hits iron and sword clashes with sword, love battles duty as a new world is forged.
In other news, as a reference to our readers, we've put a chart online that tracks the books' characters across reincarnations.
Marion Zimmer Bradley died in 1999.
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