Stories Include
- Primitive hunters living before the last Ice-age
- Similar hunter gatherers returning after the ice, and their possible marriage-customs
- The arrival of the first Neolithic farmers; in this case pastoralists with sheep, which the local hunters don't initially recognise as creatures they should not hunt.
- A visiting astronomer-priest from the culture that later produced the Stonehenge trilithons
- The defeat of a Roman force by Welsh tribesmen, the Silures.
- 'King Arthur', here seen as Artorius, a warlord who had defeated the Saxons but here seen as a burden to the ordinary farmers who produced the food that the warriors ate.
- Harold Godwinson riding through, having briefly chased out the Normans during the reign of Edward the Confessor.
- The Normans pushing into Wales after 1066
- A local revolt that merges into the general rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr in the early 15th century.
- Sir John Oldcastle seeking refuge after being persecuted for supporting the Lollards.
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