AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE AGES: A STORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN - Cadoc moves through the greenwood, urging his charges forward with his staff, eager to reach the safety of the stockade and the warmth of the Great Hall before night falls. No-one wants to be abroad in the forest at night, not even the swordsmen will venture forth in the dark. He travels light, his only weapons a sling wrapped around his forearm and a dirk which hangs from the leather belet around his tunic. A hundred years have passed since Cadoc's father's grandfather, the Prince Madoc, sailed with the others, forsaking their homes in Wales to settle the land which Madoc and his brother had discovered across the vast expanse of the Great Ocean to the west. Madoc's "ten golden sails" left harbour in the year of Our Lord 1172 and were never seen again in the land of their birth. No-one knows what happened to them, nor of their fate in that vast and bountiful land which others, in later years, named as the continent of America. This is a story of what might have been ...