I've moved this to Reviews...
I'm a huge fan of these novels, and truly they are what got me into fantasy in the first place. I'll very enthusiastically second the recommendation.
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There is also a quite amusing reference to the traditional Arthurian legend as Derfel watches his careful, accurate historical account being taken away and translated by an interpreter who decides his work is a bit dull and makes various unfotunate changes which we can tell are the beginnings of the rather unhistorical myth as we know it today.
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I've read these books a few times, but not for awhile, so perhaps my memory is hazy... I recall Derfel suspecting throughout that as the pages were being transcribed Igraine's scribe would change it to come in line with the myths that were already being born, but discovered towards the end when the scribe (Dafydd?) came in Igraine's place that Igraine forbid him from changing a single word.