Mist or Smoke or Warriors in Battle . . .

Long before the age of castles, in the centuries after Rome abandoned Britain, the British (Welsh) kingdoms and their Anglian and Saxon (English) neighbours fought frequent wars. Territorial disputes ignited as many early wars as racial conflict; British and English kingdoms fought their own kind as often as they fought each other. Kingdom boundaries were largely settled by the early 8th century, but local wars smouldered on. One hot spot remained the border between Anglian Mercia and British Powys.

copyright © by Susan Mayse

Susan Mayse, a fourth-generation
Vancouver Islander, has been writing, editing and teaching for three
decades but still misses the cannery. Her fiction, literary nonfiction,
poetry, journalism, drama, and radio and television documentary have
been published or performed mainly in Canada and the U.S.A.