I'm on a bit of a historical fiction kick at the moment, and I'm looking for good books set in my favourite historical period: Anglo-Saxon England. By "good", I mean both engrossing and with a reasonable amount of historical accuracy. I'm not especially interested in King Arthur, but just about anything else is welcome. Any ideas?
I'm on a bit of a historical fiction kick at the moment, and I'm looking for good books set in my favourite historical period: Anglo-Saxon England. By "good", I mean both engrossing and with a reasonable amount of historical accuracy. I'm not especially interested in King Arthur, but just about anything else is welcome. Any ideas?
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... the comments area of Click Opera to appease or battle people with what Lewis Carroll called "anglo-saxon attitudes" . The month's least-commented entry is an annoucement that I'm signing booksin Paris . November Talking of anglo-saxon attitudes -- notably, PC political reflexes getting in the way of the appreciation of beauty -- the noisiest ...
...stitches (e.g., chain and couching). Board lines in black, squares and frame to be in red and maybe green. Rationale: 1) Lapp board was embroidered. Embroidery is appropriate to at least late Anglo-SaxonEngland and was probably used throughout. Bayeux Tapestry is embroidered in wool. 4) I already have skeins of black, red and green embroidery wool that I bought "for one day" years ago. One day ...
... what is happening around him. And what is happening around him? Why the Cult of Saxon or at least, groupies of Saxon. (Why were they all women?) Yes, the Master isn't dead. (Of course he's not. No one ...We are going with magic here? Fine, go on. CRAZY CULT LADY: You were Saxon's wife. You bore his imprint. (Second lady wipes Lucy's mouth.) Does ...
...lube. Seemed to be the gift of the season. Only Walker and even Saxon got what he guessed were normal gifts. A fancy beer stein and a bag of bones and chewy toys for Saxon. Great here came his. Danny proudly brought over the shiny pink wrapped box...ribbon. Doris and the Andes snickered. Tony and Walker just chuckled. Even Saxon had what seemed to be a smile on his face. Nicholas ripped ...
... ruined the Master’s fun. He kept his eyes fixed on the Doctor as the man known as Harold Saxon ran his hands over the captain’s naked body. “Handsome yes, but I’m handsome too,” the Master ... him didn’t last ten seconds as he ripped their heads off. By the time the creature reached Harold Saxon it was covered in blood and something that had once been part of a spine. The Master didn’t ...
...userpicture), but frankly, the idea that suddenly my bastard whoreson of a language needs to practice stringent root purity is ludicrous. English is a language of Norman knights trying to pick up Saxon barmaids (and all parties involved are fooling around with the Celts on the side because they have sexy syntax) that aggressively pursues other language to beat them up for their stray vocabulary,...
...souvient la comédienne. Elle m'a d'abord écrit une lettre à laquelle elle avait joint le scénario. Je l'ai lu et relu. Je l'ai d'abord trouvé ambigu. Le climat particulier, très anglo-saxon, à la frontière entre le conte de fées et le fantastique, des pensionnats pourjeunes filles m'étaient assez in connus. J'ai trouvé fascinant le personnage de Miss G. Lors de notre première rencontre à Londres,...
