The Legions of the Mist

by Damion Hunter

  As their little cavalcade fell in behind, Gwytha swung about in her saddle, and her eyes locked for the last time on the northern road, sun-baked and empty behind her. Then she dug her heels hard into the pony’s flank.

  In Rome, the hand of a junior clerk reached out and drew a single line across the legionary rolls.

  Glossary of Place Names

  Roman Modern

  Alauna Maryport

  Antium Anzio

  Aquae Sulis Bath

  Calleva Atrebatum Silchester

  Camulodunum Colchester

  Castra Exploratorum Netherby

  Cataractonium Catterick

  Corstopitum Corbridge

  Dacia Transylvania and Rumania

  Danum Doncaster

  Deva Chester

  Eburacum York

  Grannona Bayeux

  Gesoriacum Boulogne

  Hibernia Ireland

  Hippo Regius Annaba, Algeria

  Isca Silurum Caerleon

  Isurium Brigantum Aldborough

  Lambaesis Lambese, Algeria

  Lindum Lincoln

  Londinium London

  Luguvallium Carlisle

  Mamucium Manchester

  Moesia Upper: Serbia

  Lower: Bulgaria

  Nicomedia Izmit, Turkey

  Pannonia Hungary and Yugoslavia west of the Danube

  Parthia Northeast Iran

  Rutupiae Richborough

  Segedunum Wallsend

  Selinous Selente, Turkey

  Tarraco Tarragona, Spain

  Trimontium Newstead

  Valentia Lowland Scotland

  Venta Belgarum Winchester

  Verulamium St. Albans

  Vindobona Vienna

  Vindolanda Chesterholm

  Vinovia Binchester

  First published in the USA in 1979 by Atheneum

  This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by

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  57 Shepherds Lane

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  United Kingdom

  Copyright © Damion Hunter, 1979

  The moral right of Damion Hunter to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  ISBN 9781788634458

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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