Just finished The Winter King, and immediately sent for the sequels. Excellent historical fiction! I enjoyed it on a par with George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, a thoroughly down-to-earth and character AND plot driven fantasy work. Martin’s characters are so well developed that you feel you might run into them… I strongly recommend it. Just one comment: in your afterward you express doubt that the early Christian church in Britain was tolerant toward other religions. But, as you yourself note, the early church was a different animal than what it is today, or even what it became by feudal times. Recall that early Christianity was a religion of the oppressed and exploited. The church had not yet become an empire with a ruler as powerful as any emperor. I find it believable that the early Christians may well have coexisted peacefully with other, indigenous, religions. But, then again, that’s speculation. Best, Mike