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by Rosemary Sutcliff


  The taste of blood rushed into his mouth. He plunged forward into the sun dazzle and felt himself falling. He never felt the jagged stones in the ditch.

  PLACE NAMES MENTIONED IN THIS STORY

  ARE-CLUTA Dumbarton.

  BAAL’S BEACON Lomond (Loch and Ben).

  Connected with lumen, light.

  Lugh the Sun-God had Baal among his other names.

  CLOTA River Clyde.

  COIT CALEDON ‘The Wood of the Caledones’ – the great Caledonian forest.

  CORSTOPITUM Corbridge.

  DRUIM ALBAN ‘The Ridge of Britain’. Now Drum Alban.

  DUN MONAIDH Dunadd.

  EARRA-GHYL ‘The Coast of the Gael’. Roughly Argyllshire.

  EBURACUM York.

  FIRTH OF WAR-BOATS Loch Long.

  FIRTH OF WARSHIPS (Loch Luinge) GLEN OF THE ALDER WOODS Glen Orchy.

  GLEN OF THE BLACK GODDESS Glen Lochy.

  INSHORE ISLAND Kerrera, off Oban.

  LOCH ABHA Loch Awe.

  LONDINIUM London.

  NORTHERN WALL The ‘Antonine Wall’. Built by Lollius Urbicus, Legate of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, circa A.D. 143.

  ROYAL WATER – LOCH FHIONA Loch Fyne.

  SEGEDUNUM Wallsend.

  THEODOSIA Dumbarton Rock.

  THE OLD WOMAN WHO SWALLOWS SHIPS Corrievrechan.

  VALENTIA Roman province between the Northern and Southern walls. Broadly speaking, Lowland Scotland.

  ALSO BY ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF

  Bonnie Dundee

  The Chronicles of Robin Hood

  Flame-Coloured Taffeta

  Frontier Wolf

  Knight’s Fee

  Blood Feud

  Simon

  Song for a Dark Queen

  Tristan and Iseult

  Warrior Scarlet

  The Witch’s Brat

  Beowulf: Dragonslayer

  Brother Dusty-Feet

  The Armourer’s House

  Sun Horse, Moon Horse

  Sword Song

  The Hound of Ulster

  The Capricorn Bracelet

  The High Deeds of Finn MacCool

  The Shining Company

  The Light Beyond the Forest

  The Road to Camlann

  The Sword and the Circle

  THE MARK OF THE HORSE LORD

  AN RHCP DIGITAL EBOOK 978 1 473 50594 0

  Published in Great Britain by RHCP Digital,

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  This ebook edition published 2014

  Copyright © Sussex Dolphin Limited, 1965

  First Published in Great Britain

  Red Fox Classics 9781782950868 1965

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