The Serpent's Tooth: Diana L. PaxsonLeir, chieftain of the Quiritani people from the Great Land, conquers the Painted People of Iron Age Britain. He fathers a daughter with each of three major queens, his favorite child being the youngest, Cridilla. She is trained, like her sisters, to join a long line of women warriors. When famine overtakes the land in Lier's old age, his older daughters Gunarduilla and Rigana plot to overthrow him and return to the rule of the Goddess. Cridilla