Crossword-Solution: GWENT 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The cavalry of Armorica, the spearmen of Gwent, and the archers of Merioneth, were equally formidable; but their poverty could seldom procure either shields or helmets; and the inconvenient weight would have retarded the speed and agility of their desultory operations.

Usher places it at Gwent, Monmouthshire, which name, he ways, was taken from Caer-Went, near Chepstow.

Now in Wales it is the spearmen who are weak, and there are no archers in these islands like the men of Gwent with their bows of elm, which shoot with such power that I have known a cavalier to have his horse killed when the shaft had passed through his mail breeches, his thigh and his saddle.

His marches were nearly all triumphant; he was welcomed along the whole line of the marches by the peasants to the furthest corners of Gwent.

Anyway Jack's game is finished." "And I suppose this is why, as you say, Morgana has gone off 'in the midst of many social duties'? Was Jack one of her social duties?" Gwent gazed at her with an unrevealing placidity.