Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden
The trilogy's later volumes took the World Fantasy Award (Madouc, 1990); its blend of folklore and statecraft visibly influenced Gaiman's Stardust and modern fairy-tale epic alike.
Series Guide
Lyonesse
by Jack Vance
Vance's fairy-tale epic of the Elder Isles before Arthur: dynastic war, changelings, ogres and the drowned land that legend says lies between Britain and Brittany.