Stephen Lawhead - Pendragon Cycle 3 - Arthur

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BOOK III OF THE

PENDRAGON CYCLE

STEPHEN LAWHEAD

A LION BOOK

20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Printed and bound in Great Britain

by Mackays of Chatham PLC, Chatham, Kent

WAS NO LESS THAN MY

OWN

ch: hard, as in Scottish Loch, or Bach (never soft, as in church)

dd: th as in then (never as in thistle)

f: v, as in of

ff: f, as in off

g: hard, as in girl (never gem)

ll: a Welsh distinctive, sounded as 'tl' or 'hi' on the sides of the tongue

r: trilled, lightly

rh: as if hr, heavy on the 'h' sound

s: always as in sir (never his)

th: as in thistle (never then)

Vowels — as in English, but with the general lightness of short vowel

sounds:

a: as in father

e: as in met (when long, as in late)

i: as in pin (long, as in eat)

o: as in not

u: as in pin (long as in eat)

w: a 'double-u,' as in vacuum,or tool;but becomes a consonant before

vowels, as in the name Gwen

y: as in pin; or sometimes as 'u' in but (long as in eat)

(As you can see, there is not much difference in i, u, and y — they are

One world there is, one God, and one birth

the Druid stars foretold

SRL

Vortipor! Foremost in corruption, supreme in spite! A pig with its snout

sunk in the entrails of its rival is not swifter than you to suck down

iniquity. Your wickedness flows from your smoke-filled hall and

inundates the land in a vile flood of wrongdoing.

You call yourself noble. You call yourself king. You call yourself exalted.

Exalted in sin, perhaps. You have wreathed your head with laurel, but this

is not deserved — unless men now bestow the laurel crown for

immorality, at which you are a champion among men!

Urien Rheged! Your name is a reproach. Fornicator! Adulterer! Chief

Despoiler! Pillar of Impurity! The lowest vermin in your refuse pit is not

lower than you.

Chief Drunkard! Chief Glutton! Defiling all you touch. To you is given

the depravity of ten, the iniquity of a hundred, the perversion of a

thousand! Your chancrous body is bloated with your corruption. You are

dead and do not know it, but the stench of your corpse rises to heaven!

Maelgwn! Great Hound of Gwynedd! How far have you fallen from your

father's high position. Maelgwn the Tall earned his stature through

righteousness and virtue; you steal it from his memory. Is it possible that

you have forgotten all that you once knew?

robe.

Hear then, if you will, the tale of a true king.

PELLEAS

Arthur is no fit king. Uther's bastard, Merlin's pawn, he is lowborn and a

fool. He is wanton and petty and cruel. A glutton and a drunkard, he lacks

all civilized graces. In short, he is a sullen, ignorant brute.

All these things and more men say of Arthur. Let them.

When all the words are spoken and the arguments fall exhausted into

silence, this single fact remains: we would follow Arthur to the very gates

of Hell and beyond if he asked it. And that is the solitary truth.

Show me another who can claim such loyalty.

'Cymbrogi,' he calls us: companions of the heart, fellow-countrymen.

Cvmbrogi! We are his strong arm, his shield and spear, his blade and

helm. We are the blood in his veins, the hard sinew of his flesh, the bone

beneath the skin.. We are the breath in his lungs,''the clear light in his

eyes,I and the song rising to his lips. We are the meat and drink at his

board.

Cvmbrogi! We are earth and sky to him. And Arthur is all these things to

us — and more.

Ponder this. Think long on it. Only then, perhaps, will you begin to

understand the tale I shall teU you.

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