As guest professors for one year at an English university, married couple Tara and Alex are delighted to find that shortly after arriving they are invited to a newly discovered seventh century dig site in the northwest corner of England. The site reveals some finds which require Alex's knowledge of dead and extinct Celtic languages and Tara's ability to interpret artefacts. The most exciting of the finds is a manuscript written in long-extinct and elusive Cumbrian, a language which died out a thousand years ago and has little evidence surviving into the twenty-first century...until now. Alex...
As guest professors for one year at an English university, married couple Tara and Alex are delighted to find that shortly after arriving they are inv...