Ballad of a Celtic Ghost by Jon Bennett
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Overview: As long as the dragons breath falls upon this land the Romans shall know no peace.” Gaius Minucius Bassilus, Fourth cohort of Gauls.
194AD
The great wall in the North never knew peace, and as the Hinterland forts fall to rack & ruin Fingal ‘The Wolf’ musters the Caledonian clans to claim back even more territory from the Britons & their Roman protectorate. Amidst the turmoil of a collapsing empire, a legionnaire, Gaius Bassilus, finds himself embroiled in a struggle between his Roman paymasters in the camp of Vindolanda, and the tribe who inhabit the land, the Textoverdi. Entangled amidst the plots, lust & intrigues between the Celtic clans, the Roman oppressors and the invading Picts, his only wish is to survive. Gaining a profound respect for the Textoverdi he is embraced into their midst, learning not only their language and ways, but a song around a campfire that tells of a warrior’s return that will bring back freedom by uniting a land in peace & prosperity.
This is the first book of ‘The Vindolanda Saga’, which charts the rise of the Severan Dynasty.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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