Finding Camlann (37 page)

Authors: Sean Pidgeon

BOOK: Finding Camlann

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Despite its formidable appearance, the Welsh language follows generally simple rules of spelling and pronunciation. The principal Welsh names and placenames in the novel are pronounced roughly as follows.

Camlann =
kam
-lan (with two short vowels)

Cwmhir = koom-heere

Cyndeyrn =
kin
-dayrn

Dyffryn =
duh
-frin

Owain Glyn D
ŵ
r =
Oh
wain glin doowr

Plaid Cymru = plide kumree

Rhayader = ray-uh-der (with the ‘uh’ barely sounded)

Siôn Cent = shon kent

Tân y Ddraig = tahn uh thraig (‘th’ as in ‘the’, ‘ai’ as in ‘eye’)

Ty Faenor = tee vynor

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pidgeon, Sean.

Finding Camlann : a novel / Sean Pidgeon.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-393-24015-3 (hardcover)

eISBN 978-0-393-08970-7

1. Archaeologists—Fiction. 2. Linguists—Fiction. 3. Mythology,
British—Fiction. 4. Arthur, King—Fiction. 5. Great Britain—History—
Fiction. 6. Mystery fiction. 7. Love stories. I. Title.