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  • Maybe it's her daughter - the real Trudi is in the Orkney's photo.

    Denvention: worldcon Denver 2008 Glenda Larke 2008

  • A man and a boy were working on the stretch of moorland heather that covers the rolling center of Orkney's main island.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • To them, with no warning but the soft pace of hoofs in the heather, and a shadow falling across the man's preoccupation, came Orkney's king, Gawain.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • "But perhaps she won't have me beaten this time," said Orkney's young king, hopefully.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • He dreamed about her still, fantasies of rescue and return to Orkney's throne, with her grateful, and himself triumphant.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • Beduer, and commanded the host there; there was the King Howel, noble man of Britanny; Cador there was eke, who was keen in flock; there was from Ireland Gillomar the strong; there was Gonwais the king, Orkney's darling; there was Doldanim the keen, out of Gothland, and Rumaret the strong, out of Winet-land; there was Aescil the king, Denmark's darling.

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • Orkney's regiment, under Marlborough, at Ramilies and Malplaquet, with approbation.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

  • He wore a suit of green Genoese velvet, so richly laced that little of the cloth was visible; a full-bottomed wig, and a small corslet of the brightest steel (over which hung the ends of his cravat), as well as a pair of silver-mounted cavalry pistols that lay on the table, together with his unmistakable bearing, decided the Major of Orkney's that the stranger was a brother of the sword.

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • Gonwais proceeded towards him, with his wise thanes, and set to Arthur in hand all Orkney's land, and two-and-thirty islands, that thither in heth, and his homage, with much reverence.

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • My name is Gawaine, the King Lot of Orkney's son, and my mother is King Arthur's sister.

    Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

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