title: King's War: The Knights of Breton Court 3
author:  Maurice Broaddus 
description: Praise for "King Maker" - The Knights of Breton Court, Book 1:<br><br>"Broaddus delivers in a voice that both whispers and roars and cannot be ignored."<br>- Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Award-winner Gary A. Braunbeck<br><br>"The language is fierce and evokes the gritty realism of life on the streets. [The supernatural elements] drift through the novel like smoke... King Maker is going to be the best read of 2010." <br>- FantasyLiterature.com<br><br>"King Maker is a fascinating novel, a true urban fantasy in the literal definition of the term... [it] should be on every SF fan's shelf."<br>- Adam Christopher
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  # Eliduc
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Marie de France
  
  
  ##### translated by Isabel Butler
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
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  Now will I tell you all the matter and story of a most ancient Breton
  
  
  lay, even as I have heard it, and hold it for true.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In Bretaigne dwelt a knight, brave and courteous, hardy and bold;
  
  
  Eliduc was his name, methinketh, and in all the land was no other man so
  
  
  valiant. And he had for wife a woman wise and honourable, of high
  
  
  parentry and goodly lineage. Long they lived together, and loyally they
  
  
  loved one another; but at length it fell that by reason of strife the knight
  
  
  went to seek service abroad, and there he grew to love a maid, daughter
  
  
  to a king and queen; Guilliadun was the name of the damsel, and she was
  
  
  the fairest of that realm. Now Eliduc's wife was called among her own
  
  
  folk Guildeluec, and from these twain the lay hath taken the name of
  
  
  Guildeluec and Guil