Celtiad

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The Keltiade (also: Keltia cycle ) is an eight-volume fantasy series by the American author Patricia Kennealy-Morrison . It describes the story of a Celtic star empire, which was founded by Celtic emigrants from the earth in the 5th century. The individual books play in different time levels and have elements of Celtic mythology as well as science fiction and fantasy .

Historical background of the Celtiad

The Celtic peoples of the earth are descendants of the Danes who, coming from a distant, perishing world in prehistoric times, colonized the earth. There they founded Atlantis and other colonies. Their descendants split into two hostile groups, the Celts and the Telchins. The armed conflict ended with the destruction of Atlantis by the use of black magic. The Celts emerged from the scattered descendants of the Danes, who settled in the lands west of Atlantis.

With the advent of Christianity and the decline of magic in the 5th century, their living conditions deteriorated. An emigration of Celtic peoples began under the guidance of Brendan , half human, half divine. With the help of traditional Danish technology, spaceships were built and Celtic emigrants left the earth from 453 onwards. Three years later they founded the Celtic empire with the throne world Tara as its center. The Celtic civilization is ruled by an Ard-Righ or an Ard-Rian and is based on a feudal system. Celtic gods, the Sidhe and other mythological beings are also inhabitants of the Celtic worlds. The descendants of the Telchins, the Koranians, also emigrated into space and built up an empire there that is close to the Celtic systems.

Publications

The previously published volumes of the Keltiade can be divided into three groups. The first three volumes are about Aeron, the Ard-Rian of Keltia. During her reign, in the earth year 3512, she came into contact with a spaceship from Earth and, as a result, started a fight against the Koranians. Volumes four to six are told from the perspective of the bard Taliesin and take up the story of stories about Arthur . The last two volumes are individual stories from the early days of the Celtic Empire and describe the exodus of the Celts in the 5th century under Brendan.

  • 1984: The Copper Crown (1987: Die Kupferkrone, also: The thirteen treasures of Keltia)
  • 1986: The Throne of Scone (1989: The Throne of Scone)
  • 1988: The Silver Branch (1991 : The Silver Branch )
  • 1991: The Hawk's Gray Feather ( 1991: The Hawk's Gray Feather )
  • 1994: The Oak Above the Kings (1998: The Royal Oak )
  • 1996: The Hedge of Mist (The Fog Hedge)
  • 1997: The Tale of Athyn (1999: Schwarzmantel)
  • 1999: The Deer's Cry (not yet published in German)
  • announced: The Beltane Queen

The original English editions were first published as hardcover and later also as paperback by HarperCollins . In Germany, the individual volumes appeared as paperbacks in the Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy series under the editor Wolfgang Jeschke .

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