Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon

BOOK: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon
9.57Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads
Table of Contents
 
 
OTHER BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ravens of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ancestors of Avalon
Priestess of Avalon
Lady of Avalon
The Forest House
The Mists of Avalon
ROC
Published by New American Library, a division of
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street,
New York, New York 10014, USA
Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto,
Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)
Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2,
Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.)
Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124,
Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.)
Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park,
New Delhi - 110 017, India
Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632,
New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.)
Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., 24 Sturdee Avenue,
Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa
 
Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices:
80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
 
First published by Roc, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
 
First Printing, December 2009
 
Copyright © The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust and Diana L. Paxson, 2009
All rights reserved
REGISTERED TRADEMARK—MARCA REGISTRADA
 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Paxson, Diana L.
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword of Avalon/Diana L. Paxson.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-15194-5
1. Avalon (Legendary place)—Fiction. I. Bradley, Marion Zimmer. II. Title.
PS3566.A897M345 2009
813’.54—dc22 2009024978
 
 
 
Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
 
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party Web sites or their content.
 
The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

http://us.penguingroup.com

To Steve,
fellow forger of words.
NAMES IN THE STORY
PEOPLE
PEOPLE OF THE ISLAND OF THE MIGHTY
(Names in parenthesis are people dead before the story begins. Names in capital letters indicate main characters. A + marks figures known from legend.)
Acaimor—an Ai-Utu boy, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Adjonar—Ai-Zir, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Agraw—Cimara’s bridegroom
 
Alder—a girl of the Lake Village
 
Analina—a student at Avalon
 
Anaterve—a trader of Belerion, father of Analina
 
ANDERLE—Lady of Avalon
 
Badger—headman of the Lake Village
 
Beaver—a Lake Village boy, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Belkacem—priest and lore master at Avalon
 
Beniharen—an Ai-Ilf boy, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Chaoud—an Ai-Zir farmer
 
Cimara—princess and later queen of the Ai-Zir, Mikantor’s cousin
 
Curlew—a hunter, one of the moor folk of Belerion
 
Durrin—a priest and bard of Avalon, father of Tirilan
 
(Eilantha—temple name of Tiriki)
 
Ellet—a young priestess from the Ai-Giru
 
Eltan—king of the Ai-Ushen, brother of Ketaneket
 
Eltanor—a senior priest of Avalon
 
Eran—the smith at Avalon
 
GALID—a chieftain of the Amanhead clan of the Ai-Zir
 
Ganath—an Ai-Giru boy studying on Avalon and later a healer
 
Goosey and Gander—twin children of the Lake Village
 
Grebe—Mikantor’s foster brother, one of his Companions
 
Hino—Galid’s fool
 
Iftiken—king of the Ai-Giru
 
Irnana—cousin of Anderle, wife of Uldan and mother of Mikantor
 
Izri—one of Galid’s men
 
Kaisa-Zan—High Priestess of the Ai-Utu
 
Keddam—one of Galid’s warriors
 
Ketaneket—queen of the Ai-Ushen, sister of Eltan
 
Kiri—an old priestess
 
Larel—a priest of Avalon
 
Leka—High Priestess of the Ai-Akhsi
 
Linne—High Priestess of the Ai-Giru
 
Lycoren—a chieftain of the Ai-Akhsi
 
Lysandros—of Troian descent, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Menguellet—queen of the Ai-Akhsi
 
(Micail—Prince of Ahtarrath in the Sea Kingdoms, high priest of the Temple of Light, and later, of Avalon)
 
MIKANTOR (Woodpecker)—dispossessed prince of the Ai-Zir
 
Muddazakh—Galid’s champion
 
Nuya—High Priestess of the Ai-Zir
 
Olavi—High Priestess of the Ai-Siwanet
 
Orlai—a farmer of Azan
 
(Osinarmen—temple name of Micail)
 
Pelicar—Ai-Ilf, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Ramdane—one of Galid’s men
 
Redfern—Miko’s foster mother
 
Romen—Ai-Utu, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Rouikhed—an Ai-Akhsi boy trained at Avalon, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Saarin—High Priestess of the Ai-Ushen
 
Sakanor—King of the Ai-Utu
 
Shizuret—High Priestess of the Ai-Ilif
 
Soumer—one of Galid’s warriors
 
Squirrel—an old man of the elder folk of the Vale
 
Tanecar—son of Queen Ketaneket of the Ai-Ushen
 
Tegues—Ai-Giru, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
(Tiriki—Princess of Ahtarrath, high priestess of Avalon)
 
TIRILAN—Anderle’s daughter and heir
 
Ulansi—Ai-Zir, one of Mikantor’s Companions
 
Uldan—war leader of the Ai-Zir
 
Urtaya—queen of the Ai-Utu
 
Vole—a Lake Village boy studying on Avalon
 
Willow Woman—Badger’s mother, headwoman of the Lake Village
 
Zamara—queen of the Ai-Zir, sister of Uldan
PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE SEA AND NORTHERN LANDS
Aelfrix—a boy from the City of Circles
 
+(Agamemnon—King of Mycenae, victor of Troia)
 
Aiaison—eldest son of the King of Tiryns
 
+Aletes—great-grandson of Heracles and of Iolaos, leader of the Eraklidae attacking Korinthos
 
Bodovos the Bear—commander of the guard at the City of Circles
 
+(Brutus—a prince of Troia who emigrated with his followers to the Isle of the Mighty)
 
Buda—sister of Bodovos, mother of Aelfrix
 
+Doridas and Hyanthidas—Kings of Korinthos
 
+(Erakles [Heracles]—disinherited prince of Argos, hero, ancestor of the Eraklidae)
 
Katuerix—smith at Bhagodheunon
 
+(Klytemnaestra—wife, and murderer, of Agamemnon)
 
+Kresfontes—son of Aristomakhos, brother of Temenos and Aristo demos, great-great-grandson of Erakles, leader of the attack on Tiryns and Mykenae
 
Leta—daughter of Aletes
 
Lord Loutronix—Master of Dikes and Locks, City of Circles
 
Maglocunos—King of the Tuathadhoni
 
Melandros—chariot driver and lover of Aiaison
 
+(Menelaos [Menelaus]—King of Sparta, husband of Helena)
 
Naxomene—Queen of Tiryns
 
+(Odikeos [Odysseus]—king of the Ionian Isles, hero of Troia)
 
+(Orestes—son and avenger of Agamemnon, father of Tisamenos)
 
+(Persaios [Perseus]—heir of Tiryns and founder of Mykenae)
 
Phorkaon—King of Tiryns
 
Tanit—a slave girl in the service of Queen Naxomene
 
Thersander—a trader from Korinthos
 
+Tisamenos—King of Mycenae
 
Tuistos, Mannos and Sowela—priest-kings and -queen of the City of Circles
 
VELANTOS—bastard son of the King of Tiryns, a smith
BOOK: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon
9.57Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Other books

Las once mil vergas by Guillaume Apollinaire
Strangers in Company by Jane Aiken Hodge
Baby Doll Games by Margaret Maron
Rendezvous with Hymera by De Ross, Melinda
Ruptured: The Cantati Chronicles by Gallagher, Maggie Mae
Nanny by Christina Skye
Dark Passage by Marcia Talley