| Not so very long ago as time is measured in the marshes, Azariah of Beth-Shemesh came from the farthest east to settle in the Brythonic lands. He was of the race of the Iudde, those who say there is only one god, and that he lives at the top of a mountain in the midst of a dry and dusty desert in their own faraway land. Azariah's journey began with the scattering of his people by the warrior king Nebadd-kinesser. With his wife, Rebekkah, and seven children, he set out by boat from the coast of Iuddea to cross the wide sea that lies at the middle of the earth. After years of perilous travel through many lands, Azariah came to the Brythonic shores and settled in the hills of Cornualle, which rise above the marshes that lie south of Crib Pwlborfa. Now Azariah was a delver in stone . . . |
