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Feb 4 14:41 UTC 1999

I got as far as searching the WWW to verify that florins and 
half-florins are some sort of monetary unit.  It's true, they are; I 
found coin-collector references to them.  "Cwyd" is almost certainly 
Welsh.

In the last 20 years, at least 50,000 writers have written fantasy 
novels with a Welsh background.  To my mind, 49,686 of these were 
identical, and I have long since given up finding the rest.  (Some that 
I did read were good, to be sure, but finding any that are 
distinguishable from the rest seems as difficult as finding an original 
disco song.)

Maybe this author one-upped Mary Stewart's misogyny.  It's a common 
technique; find a good, successful author, and copy some of what they 
did, while trying to go a little further.  This thought doesn't doesn't 
help to identify the author.

Maybe more clues and quotes are in order.