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"That is what I call dunghill stuff, Cadal. I meant, what is she like?"
"Well, that's just what they don't say, except that she's silent."

I feel like this sums up every women in this book except Niniane.

I am annoyed that, once again, that this book pulled a "and then I did the thing we spent multiple chapters building up to, but I'm not going to describe it because the author doesn't want to."

Finn MacCool wasn't a king.

You know what? Kudos for writing that and admitting that it's bad, Ms. Stewart. A lesser writer would have had all the other characters gushing about how great it is.

Wow, this Mithraist ceremony would probably be significant if Stewart explained what the hell any of it meant.

YEEAAH, I'm starting to see why other reviews have issues with how this book treats women.

Is anti-Saxonism a thing? Because I feel like this book is anti-Saxonist.

"The end came in the second week of May."

That's a fun little coincidence, reading that now. Same thing happened with Le Morte D'Arthur, when I read about Gawain's death on May 10.

How do you ogle a nun? I mean that literally. You shouldn't be able to make out a "supple young body" beneath a habit.

"If the priests believed my mother, and Vortigern believed the priests, then I could not see where danger could come from."

I mean, now they'll just think you're half-DEMON. Why would they want to hurt you then?

Also, what kind of priests are these? Christian, Mithraist, pagan...?