Dear Sir, congratulations on your recent honour from Her Majesty and thank you for the many hours of entertainment you have brought to me and to countless others. Both your Arthur books and the Saxon stories are told by characters who are writing in a form of English far from that spoken today. Many of your books have been translated into languages such as french and spanish: might we one day see Uhtred’s tale written in Anglo-Saxon and Derfel’s in Ancient Welsh (and perhaps Anglo-Saxon as well, his being translated from one to the other)? Warmest regards, Zachary Mallett