What is "dawntime"

Usage examples of "dawntime".

Once, back in the Dawntime when the people of Bel had first come to Deverry from their original homeland across the eastern seas, the priests of the oak groves known as drwiddion had openly worked dweomer.

Now, back in the Dawntime there were many battle maidens, all sworn to the Dark Moon.

When he launched into a tale of King Bran and a mighty wizard of the Dawntime, the crowd stood fascinated.

At night, they took turns reading aloud from this early translation of a dialogue by the Rhwman sage Tull Cicryn, and stayed up late many a time discussing these rare thoughts from the Dawntime age.

In the old days of the Dawntime they wandered thousands of miles before they settled the old kingdom, Devetia Riga, in the Homeland.

The lords knew well that in the old days of the Dawntime, kings were elected from among their fellow nobles, and families held the throne only as long as their heirs held the respect of the lords.

The Dawntime tribes elected magistrates called Vergobreti to administer their laws and to speak for the wartime assemblies.

Gweran was singing a ballad from the Dawntime, the sad tale of Lady Maeva and Lord Benoic and their adulterous love.

Just thinking that in the Dawntime he would have had a whole stableful of concubines was very cold comfort indeed, so I rode off in a huff and came to visit Gwaryc.

As he went round the room widdershins to light the black candles in the wall-sconces, he began chanting under his breath, an evil song older than the Dawntime, a remnant of a craft known and despised long before the ancestors of the Bardekians and the Deverry folk had left the mysterious Homelands.

Then, around the Dawntime, someone built a dun on the hill to guard themselves from our bloodthirsty ancestors.

A young priest blew on a brass horn, a rasping ancient cry down from the Dawntime.