This book is dedicated to my two sons, Damian Michael Hume and Brendan Niels Hume.

I take inordinate pride in both of these young men, who have lived their lives with all the best qualities that I have recognized in the Arthuriad such as courage, generosity, patriotism, love of kin, and the nobility of work.

I wish them love, happiness, and a long life, but, most of all, I wish them contentment.

M. K. Hume

2014