Rhodri's Furies: Ninth-century Welsh Resistance to Viking and Saxon incursions

by John Broughton

A fisherman's son, Alun ap Drystan worships his grandfather Iolyn, a renowned former warrior. The old man is worried about the future of his homeland, and to help, he sends father and son to visit a reclusive seer with Druidic blood.

Speaking in riddles, the seer tells Alun the find the Battle together, they will be the saviours of Gwynedd, and that he will be a great warrior, mingling with the greatest in the land.

After a chance meeting with the cattle breeder Iowerth and his son, Cadfael ap Iowerth, Alun realises that the youth's name in Old Welsh means Battle his foretold comrade. The youths soon become inseparable friends and blood brothers. But can the seer's prediction be correct?

A riveting, meticulously researched historical adventure set in early medieval Wales, 'Rhodri's Furies' is the first book in John Broughton’s BRETLAND TRILOGY of historical novels.

294 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 12, 2022

About the author

John Broughton was born in Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire, studied at the local grammar school and went on to take an honours degree in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Nottingham, where he also studied Archaeology.
John retired in January 2014 and chose the period that fascinates him most – the Anglo-Saxon period – as the setting for his first historical novel. Since then, he has had 28 novels published by Next Chapter Publishing. Most are historical novels, but he also writes murder mysteries, fantasy and sci-fi.