Laigin in the Southeast (contemporary Leinster)
Mumu in the Southwest
Connachta in the West
Ulaid in the North (contemporary Ulster)
Midhe in the central East
Ard Ladrann - Courtown Harbour near Gorey
Bend Atair - Dublin
Brega - A sub-province of Midhe, inland from the middle of Ireland on the east coast
Bruig na Boyne - Newgrange
Cashel - Cashel
Cruachu - Royal seat in Connachta (Rathcroghan, Roscommon)
Dun Ailinne - Near Kilcullen
Druim Dara - Kildare
Erain Sea - Irish Sea
Midhe - The middle of Eriu, an area surrounding present-day Dublin
Rath Bile - Rathvilly
Rath Inber - Arklow
Rath na Riogh - The main seat of kings at Tara
Sidhe ol Femuin - Hill of the Sidhe east of Cashel (Slieveaman)
Slane - Slane
Tara - Tara
Places in Britain:
Abona - Sea Mills on the coast near Bristol
Aquae Sulis - Bath
Caer Baddon - Little Solsbury Hill northeast of Bath
Caer Custoeint - Cadbury Camp west of Bristol
Caer Guinnet - Hill fort south of Winchester (Venta)
Caer Gwent - Capital of Gower, near Caer Leon (Caerwent)
Caer Leon - Caerleon
Calleva - Silchester
Cambodunum - Outlane, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Ceint - Kent
Celliwig - Castle Killibury, Cornwall (northeast of Wadebridge)
Corinium - Cirencester
Cunetio - Mildenhall, Wiltshire
Demetia - Southwest Wales
Din Eidyn - Edinburgh
Dortrig - Sub-kingdom of Dumnonia, roughly equivalent with eastern Devon / western Somerset
Dumnonia - Present day Cornwall, Devon and Somerset
Dyn Draithou - South Cadbury
Dyn Tagell - Tintagel
Ergyng - Kingdom east of Gower
Glevum - Gloucester
Gododdin - Southeast part of Scotland
Gower - Southeast Wales
Gwynedd - Northeast Wales
Island of Vectis - Isle of Wight
Isca Dumnoniorum - Exeter
Lansyen - Hill fort north of Fowey in Cornwall
Lindinis - Ilchester
Londinium - London
Moridunum - Carmarthen, Wales, civitas capital of Demetia
Noviomagus - Chichester
Portus Adurni - Portchester
Rheged - Kingdom in the area of northwest England and southwest Scotland
Sabrina - Severn (Estuary and river)
Venedotia - Latin word for Gwynedd (Northwest Wales)
Venta / Venta Belgarum - Winchester
Verulamium - St. Albans
Voliba - Fowey
Ynys Witrin - Glastonbury
Places in Armorica (Brittany):
Bro Leon - Province in the northwest part of Armorica
Caer Brioc (east of Leonis) - St. Brieuc
Caer Haes - Carhaix
Domnonia - Province in the northeast part of Armorica
Karke - Seat of Kaedin, brother of the Yseult of the White Hands, south of Caer Brioc
Kemper - Quimper
Leonis - Seat of Riwallon in Bro Leon (St. Pol de Leon)
Map of Fifth Century Britain and Ireland
About the author
A former assistant professor of English in the picturesque town of Freiburg on the edge of the Black Forest, Ruth Nestvold has given up theory for imagination. She has since replaced her university career with a small software localization business, and the Black Forest with the parrots of Bad Cannstatt, where she lives with her fantasy, her family, her books, and no cats in a house with a turret. Her fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov's, F&SF, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Scifiction, and Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction. Her work has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel Yseult appeared in translation as Flamme und Harfe with the German imprint of Random House, Penhaligon, in 2009, and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian. She maintains a web site at http://www.ruthnestvold.com.
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Did you enjoy Yseult? Check out some of my other ebooks!
Never Ever After: Three Short Stories
Dragon Time and Other Stories
Looking Through Lace
Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur Page 59
