Bride of the Spear

In this third of Herbert's trilogy set during the Dark Ages of Britian, she demonstrates her instinctive feeling for the violent, heathenish age that ensued after the departure of the Roman legions and during Arthur's ill-fated attempts to unite England. The heroine here is Taniu, daughter of the King of Loth, haunted by a dark Druid rite as she grows up, which turned her against sex and marriage. Even after she meets, loves, and is affianced to Owain, Prince of Cumbria, she resists, saying, "I'd gladly work in a barn or a cattle-byre if I could only keep my maidenhead." Her father banishes her but that is when Taniu's real adventures begin...

• Author
• Kathleen Herbert

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 297

• Series
• Dark Ages of Britain trilogy

• Publisher
• St Martin's Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-02173-3

• EAN
• 9780312021733

• Genres
• fiction, historical

• Release date
• 1988