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Lädt ... Twilight of the serpent (1977)von Peter Valentine Timlett
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Gehört zur ReiheDruid (book 3)
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In some ways I guess it's no worse than the standard fictional convention used to present all of the ancient conversations in English, but it really bothered me that the characters in the book used C.E. dates to reference events in their time. When the Druid high priest refers to "when the Romans first landed at Richboro nine years ago in 43" (169) it makes me wince. I'm sure Timlett worked hard to get his history right, and that his academic sources used C.E. dates, but inflicting them on his pagan characters when Christians are a small persecuted sect at best is just too much for me. He didn't have his prehistoric Druids in the second book use B.C.E. dates, and this was hardly less anachronistic than that would have been.
The ceremonial magic elements were consistent with the earlier volumes, but the whole affair of the sacred tradition has obviously and consciously degraded in this later age, so that the priesthood is a weak thing indeed. Even so, the primitive Christians do not benefit from comparison to the Druids, despite their destiny to succeed them as custodians of the Light. Chapter seven is an excellent thaumaturgical set-piece, for which the chief operator is Gilda the Witch-Maiden, whose lunar and herbal sorcery is marginal to the solar cult of Druidry.
This book was perhaps my least favorite of the three, but they did fit together into a suitable whole.