Caercorbie? Eleanor recognised the name, although she did not know the location. She frowned, breaking the word into its components. Caer, she knew, was a Welsh or Brythonic word, the ancient Celtic language of much of Britain from Dumbarton Rock down to Cornwall. It meant castle. Corbie was Scots, meaning a crow, so Caercorbie was the Castle of the Crows.
Caercorbie?Caer, CorbieEleanor shook her head. Crows again. Crows seemed to have flown into her life since she arrived at Anton’s Walls and the Wardlaw Valley.
Crows again.Crows and Sir Andrew Douglas. Eleanor smiled and wondered from where these vignettes came. She had never been prone to such bursts of imagination before she arrived at Anton’s Walls, and now Sir Andrew accompanied her across half of Scotland.
Eleanor started the car
