Chapter 8
The Druid's Quest'Remember well, that Night of the Long Knives,' cried Merlyn, and then gathering his emotions and with more control he continued; 'We must continue to tell our children and repeat it often around the fires until it has become deeply imprinted upon our minds and the shadows of our souls. That event was a terrible curse brought upon our people, and it was the beginning of the end for King Vortigern.'
Merlyn had risen to his feet during his telling of the tale. The others had reported on the business within their tribes and their own raids and clashes with the Saxons, but when Merlyn's turn had come to speak, he had chosen to begin with a tale from the past. Wasting little time on anything else to do with Ynys Mon and the Druids, he had just stood up and told his
