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P.J. Wiltshire
ASIN: B07QJZ4BTR
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 387

Are you ready for this book?It thoroughly challenges the accepted Viking and Anglo-Saxon stereotypes, with both men and women being portrayed as vulnerable and fragile people no different to ourselves – but living in a brutal world, where no man can expect to live beyond 50 years, and women have little better than a 50/50 chance of surviving the birth of their children. The story shows that we owe these predecessors far more than mere bloodlines: we owe them the moralities hidden in our language, moralities born out of the vicious conflict, deceit and betrayal in the times they lived. We see their world through the eyes of three characters: a Danish sea-soldier with an over-zealous regard for his forefathers – but who is plagued by his ‘curious mind’; the second is a gifted East Angle noblewoman who unknowingly stands in the path of the sea-soldier, and the third is the unruly ...
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