About the book: year / The world in which the action takes place is an alternative Earth, the history of which has gone differently since the middle of the 7th century, after in Ker- In Myrddin (on our Earth - present-day Carmarthen in Wales), the capital of the small British kingdom of Dyfed, a red-haired fairy suddenly appeared, calling herself the name of the Irish goddess of war. And now in Britain the expansion of the Anglo-Saxons has been stopped and reversed, and a variety of innovations, both technical and cultural, have firmly entered the life of the country. There is no magic in this world, but it is an honor to be an engineer or a scientist, and possession of scientific knowledge is valued no less than knightly valor. And here a teenage girl with sharp elven ears is looking for her place in life. This text is a free unofficial continuation (apocrypha) of the “Cambrian Cycle” by V. E. Kovalenko. The action begins approximately 30 years after the events described in The Cumbrian Knack».