A Happy New Year to you Mr. Cornwell, I am studying English Literature and History at Göttingen University (Lower Saxony, Germany) and lately do work on Old and Middle English Texts. Well I have not decided to study my subjects because of your novels, but they have definitely helped me through some really boring Chaucer or Beda moments. Currently I am deciding on a theme for a termpaper. Lately I already did an essay on “The Alliterative Morte Arthur” and got aware of some similarities between the world of that and your Arthur. Both are “a little” more realistic in my eyes, though yours is noble and his corrupt but that’s not the point. Before I start working on this termpaper, I would like to ask you if you got inspired by this novel in one or the other way. To end I would like to express my respect for your way of writing and my hope that you will find time to write a lot of more books in the next years. In any case thank you very much! Heiko Teigelkötter