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{{More citations needed|date=May 2022}}{{short description|Series of historical novels by Jack Whyte}}
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| name          = A Dream of Eagles
| books         = The Skystone<br>The Singing Sword<br>The Eagles' Brood<br>The Saxon Shore<br>The Fort at River's Bend<br>Metamorphosis<br>Uther<br>Clothar the Frank<br>The Eagle
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| author        = [[Jack Whyte]]
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| country       = Canada
| language      = English
| genre         = [[Historical novels]]
| publisher     = [[Penguin Books]]
| pub_date      = 1992 - 2005
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| pages         = 
}}

'''''A Dream of Eagles''''' is a [[historical novel]] series written by the Canadian author [[Jack Whyte]]. It was published in the United States as the '''''Camulod Chronicles'''''.

The novels are a rendition of the [[Arthurian legend]] that attempt to propose a possible explanation for the foundation of Camulod (an alternate spelling of [[Camelot]]), [[King Arthur|Arthur]]'s heritage and the political situation surrounding his existence. The setting series begins during the [[End of Roman rule in Britain|Roman departure from Britain]] and continues for 150 years, ending during the settlement of Britain by the Germanic [[Angles (tribe)|Angles]], [[Saxons]] and [[Jutes]].

== Books in the series ==
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Title
!1st Edition
!Notes
!ISBN
|-
|align="right"|1.
|''[[The Skystone]]''
|align="center"|1992
|[[Publius Varrus]], [[Ancient Rome|Roman]][[Roman Britain|-occupied]] [[Great Britain|Britain]] 
|{{ISBN|978-0-14-017050-4}}
|-
|align="right"|2.
|''[[The Singing Sword]]''
|align="center"|1993
|Publius Varrus, Roman [[End of Roman rule in Britain|withdrawal]] complete
|{{ISBN|978-0-14-017049-8}}
|-
|align="right"|3.
|''[[The Eagles' Brood]]''
|align="center"|1994
|[[Uther Pendragon|Uther]] and [[Merlin|Merlyn]] control [[Camelot|Camulod]]
|{{ISBN|978-0-14-017048-1}}
|-
|align="right"|4.
|''[[The Saxon Shore]]''
|align="center"|1995
|Merlyn raises [[King Arthur|Arthur]]
|{{ISBN|978-0-14-017047-4}}
|-
|align="right"|5.
|''[[The Fort at River's Bend]]'' (''The Sorcerer'', Volume 1)
|align="center"|1999
|Arthur grows to manhood
|{{ISBN|978-0-14-025467-9}}
|-
|align="right"|6.
|''[[Metamorphosis (Whyte novel)|Metamorphosis]]'' (''The Sorcerer'', Volume 2) 
|align="center"|1999
|Merlyn becomes a sorcerer, Arthur becomes king
|{{ISBN|978-0-670-87823-9}}
|-
|align="right"|7.
|''[[Uther (novel)|Uther]]''
|align="center"|2001
|Stand-alone novel about Uther (covers same time period as ''Eagle's Brood'')
|{{ISBN|978-0-14-026087-8}}
|-
|align="right"|8.
|''[[Clothar the Frank]]''
|align="center"|2004
|[[Lancelot]] arrives in Arthur's court
|{{ISBN|978-0-312-86929-8}}
|-
|align="right"|9.
|''[[The Eagle (novel)|The Eagle]]''
|align="center"|2005
|Concluding novel, Arthur's reign ends
|{{ISBN|978-0-8125-6899-8}} 
|}

==External links==
*[http://www.camulod.com/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705161324/http://www.camulod.com/ |date=2007-07-05 }} for '''Jack Whyte'''.  Includes biography, bibliography, book excerpts, radio interview transcripts, and an active fan forum.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060108131630/http://www.penguinblogs.ca/whyte/ Archived scan] from web.archive.org for '''Jack Whyte's''' now defunct blog at the penguin.ca website.  Includes questions by readers and Jack Whyte's answers to those questions, as well as general observations by Jack Whyte.

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[[Category:Modern Arthurian fiction]]


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