Enjoy your books, especially Saxon stories and Warlord Chronicles. What research did you rely on to paint Lancelot as shallow, cowardly and vain and Arthur the opposite? Did your research lend credence to Arthur’s wish to retire into a rural life (farming and blacksmithing)? Are you planning a sequel? After all, when Excalibur ends, Arthur is alive and Derfel is about to face, or so it appears, imminent death from Saxon swords.

j kuyper