Roma Mater — Poul Anderson; Karen Anderson

BEFORE THERE WAS AN ENGLAND, THERE WAS ROMA MATER .. .
BEFORE KING ARTHUR, THE KING OF YS

As with Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon and Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave, works with which all four volumes of THE KING OF YS will inevitably be compared, ROMA MATER transpires in the wild and eldritch time between the Fall of Rome and the rise of our own age.

As did those earlier works, ROMA MATER combines Celtic myth with our distant memories of Roman Britain and adds a magic of its own: Ys, daughter of Carthage on the coast of Brittany, ruled by the magic of The Nine and the might of the King, their Husband. How The Nine conspired with their gods to bring him to them, though he belonged to Mithras and to Rome, is only the beginning of the story .. .