The Case of the Ducal Wedding

A thrilling tale from the ancient times of the Great Moravian Empire

When an amateur archaeologist at Pohansko near Břeclav scans the stone church inside the nobleman's court at the pagan hillfort using a new ground-penetrating radar, he detects traces of metal objects several metres below the surface. Archaeologists carry out a follow-up survey of the church and discover two graves. One apparently contains the body of a priest, and the other holds a prominent warrior. The story then takes the reader back to the year 858, when a grand wedding is being prepared at the Dolnograd hillfort. Prince Slavomír is about to marry his beloved Lada, and the ceremony is to be performed by the old priest Udalrich, the young prince's former tutor and teacher...