The Hallowed Isle Book Four (27 page)

Pyrenaei montes—the Pyrenees

Sabrina fluvia—the Severn River and estuary

Segontium—Caernarvon, Wales

Sorviodunum—Salisbury

Summer Country—Somerset

Tava—River Tay

Tolosa—Toulouse

Urbs Legionis (Deva)—Chester

Uxela fluvius—River Axe, Severn estuary

Venetorum—Vannes, in Brittany

Venta Belgarum—Winchester

Venta Siluricum—Caerwent, Wales

Viroconium—Wroxeter

Voreda—Old Penrith, Cumberland

DIANA L. PAXSON
is the award-winning author of
The Lord of Horses, The Wolf and the Raven, The Dragons of the Rhine
, and
The White Raven
, and co-author (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes) of
Master of Earth and Water, The Shield Between the Worlds
, and
Sword of Fire and Shadow
, the chronicles of Fionn mac Cumhal. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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The Hallowed Isle
cycle

The Book of the Sword

The Book of the Spear

The Book of the Cauldron

The Book of the Stone

Wodan's Children
Trilogy

The Dragons of the Rhine

The Wolf and the Raven

The Lord of Horses

With Adrienne Martine-Barnes

Master of Earth and Water

The Shield Between the Worlds

Sword of Fire and Shadow

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

Published by arrangement with the author

ISBN 0-380-80548-0

EPub Edition May 2013 ISBN 9780062288899

T
HE HALLOWED ISLE: BOOK FOUR: THE BOOK OF THE STONE
. Copyright © 2000 by Diana L. Paxson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data:

First Avon Eos Trade Printing: January 2000

Paxson, Diana L.

The book of the stone / Diana L. Paxson.

p.    cm. — (The hallowed isle : bk. 4)

1. Great Britain—History—Anglo Saxon period. 449–1066 Fiction. 2. Arthurian romances Adaptations. 3. Arthur, King Fiction. I. Title. II. Series: Paxson, Diana L. Hallowed isle : bk. 4.

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