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The Harrowing of Gwynedd

78.6% complete
1989
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Never (or unknown...)
Deryni (Fictitious characters) - Fiction
Fantasy fiction
Gwynedd (Imaginery place) - Fiction
Historical Fiction
See 31
Prologue - Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. -Ecclesiasticus 44:1
1 - Every purpose is established by counsel. -Proverbs 22:18
2 - They were killed, but by accursed men, and such as had taken up an unjust envy against them. -I Clement 20:7
3 - For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. -Psalms 35:20
4 - Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their hearts? -Job 8:10
5 - For thou bringest in certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. -Acts 17:20
6 - He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy hand unto whether thou wirt. -Ecclesiasticus 15:16
7 - Yea, a sword shall pierce through thine own soul also, and the thoughts of many hearts shall be revealed. -Nicodemus 12:5
8 - I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. -Psalms 69:8
9 - They will lay hands on the sick, who will recover. -Mark 16:18
10 - Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine. -Micah 3:6
11 - For thou indeed mayest be tyrant over unrighteous men, but thou shalt not lord it over my resolution in the matter of righteousness either by thy words or through thy deeds. -IV Maccabees 2:58
12 - Who will rise up against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? -Psalms 94:16
13 - Woe be unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed. -Proverbs 10:1
14 - For thy power is the beginning of righteousness. -Wisdom of Solomon 12:16
15 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness. -Job 12:22
16 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction. -Job 33:15-16
17 - A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren. -Acts 7:37
18 - So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off. -Psalms 24:14
19 - For thou seest that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed. -Esdras 10:21
20 - Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their hearts? -Job 8:10
21 - Foursquare shall it be being doubled. -Exodus 28:16
22 - And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even in the midst of the altar. -Exodus 27:5
23 - But you shall not mock at me thus, neither will I break the sacred oaths of my ancestors to keep the Law, not even though you tear out mine eyes and burn out mine entrails. -IV Maccabees 2:53
24 - The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach... deliverance to the captives. -Luke 4:18
25 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized. -Acts 2:41
26 - I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. -Job 3:26
27 - And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed. -Isaiah 29:11
28 - I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children. -Isaiah 47:8
29 - Seek Him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into morning. -Amos 5:9
30 - Where is Uriel the angel, who came unto me at the first? for he hath caused me to fall into many trances. -II Esdras 10:28
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 Heirs of Saint Camber
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Heirs of Saint Camber     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series within the Deryni world.

1) The Harrowing of Gwynedd
2) King Javan's Year
3) The Bastard Prince
Copyright © 1989 by Katherine Kurtz
For
Anne McCaffrey,
who saved our sanity, if not our lives,
too many times to count
during that incredible first year in Ireland!
Silvery handfire preceded Evaine MacRorie down the narrow, cut-stone passageway.
May contain spoilers
It was the last thing he saw with eyes or Sight for three days, and a sight he would remember until his dying day.
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Added: 06-Aug-2019
Last Updated: 28-Mar-2023

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 Unknown Date
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1900
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$4.95
Pages*:
416
Internal ID:
13113
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-36314-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-36314-5
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Michael Herring  - Cover Artist
Bob Porter - Map
THE PERILOUS SPELL

Evil times had come for the Deryni, the humans with strange, magical powers.  The Regents of the boy-king Alroy sought the destruction of all that race.  And now Bishop Mister Cullen was dead, depriving Deryni of their greatest friend, for that was the body that Camber of Culdi had worn for twelve long years.

But neither Camber's daughter Evaine nor his son Father Joram could be sure.  Camber's body lay unchanged and incorruptible.  Was it a sign that he had worked a final spell to hold off death?  Or had Camber really become a saint?

Whatever was true, the effort to save the Deryni had to continue.  There was a way - dangerous and uncertain - to remove the Deryni powers from many so that they could pass as merely human, to scatter into anonymity and survive.

While that great effort went forward, Evaine pursued the most perilous quest of all - to find among ancient forbidden scrolls the spell that might release Camber.  The price to fail - or to succeed - was unthinkable.  But Evaine was prepared to pay it.

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION
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Notes and Comments:
First Hardcover Edition: February 1989
First Mass Market Edition: October 1989
Canada: $6.50
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Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 Katherine Kurtz
Birth: 18 Oct 1944 Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Notes:
From About the Author in Bishop's Heir:

Katherine Kurtz was awarded a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Miami and attended medical school for a year before deciding she would rather write about medicine than practice it.  She earned an M.A. in medieval English history from UCLA while writing her first two novels, and worked as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy for the next ten years.  She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, an avid horsewoman, and an avowed cat person.  She has a husband who wears kilts, a ten-year-old son named Cameron, a vintage Bentley motorcar once owned by HRH the Duke of Kent, and hopes soon to live in a castle in Ireland.  Besides the Deryni Trilogy, the Camber Trilogy, and several short stories set in the Deryni universe, she has recently published a World War II thriller, Lammas Night, dealing with magic worked to keep Hitler from invading England in the summer of 1940.  She is currently at work on the second and third books of the Histories of King Kelson, with at least two more trilogies planned.

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