Summary

Chapter 26

Artos, Ambrosius, and a small band, travel to Spain and stay at a hunting lodge that had belonged to Ambrosius' father. That evening Ambrosius tells Artos and Aquila by the fireside of his times there as a young man. He recalled eating roasted chestnuts. Artos goes to fetch some chestnuts and a roasting shovel for them to enjoy them. After a while of enjoying the chestnuts, Ambrosius leans forward on his elbows and says that he wanted to bring him here for another reason.

Ambrosius intends that Artos should be the next high king of Britain, and Artos is aghast. Ambrosius says that if he were to die suddenly without naming an heir, most likely all of the men would turn to Artos as the natural leader, though there are others who would have a blood claim. He warns Artos that there...