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"ref": "2010, Delle Jacobs, Loki’s Daughters, Las Vegas, Nev.: Montlake Romance, page 159",
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"ref": "1972 spring–summer, John Tripp, “Anglo-Welsh Testimony”, in Transatlantic Review, number 42/43, →ISSN, page 89",
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"ref": "2006, Stephanie Laurens, What Price Love?, London: Piatkus, Little, Brown Book Group, published 2011, page 5",
"text": "Like Pris, he took after their mother, more Celt than English, wild and dramatic and mercurially alive.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2009, M. K. Hume, King Arthur: Dragon’s Child, London: Headline Review, page 340",
"text": "But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2010, Delle Jacobs, Loki’s Daughters, Las Vegas, Nev.: Montlake Romance, page 159",
"text": "She answered with a smile and a nod. The woman was more Celt than Arienh had thought, and had clearly been deprived of women too long.",
"type": "quotation"
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