Sutcliff Swap 2012
(Closed, Unmoderated, Gift Exchange Challenge)
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With a Strange Majesty by bunn for Makioka
Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliff, Lantern Bearers - Rosemary Sutcliff
4 Aug 2012
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An account of old Aquila's last battle : the Battle of Badon Hill, which led to forty years of peace between Saxon and Briton.
Aquila is the protagonist of The Lantern Bearers, which tells how his father's Roman British farm was burned by Saxon raiders, how he was seized as a thrall, returned to Britain, escaped and became one of the High King Ambrosius's commanders against the invading Saxon threat. There he met Ambrosius's young nephew Artos - who we now know as King Arthur.
When Ambrosius died, Artos took over as the leader of the remnant of Roman Britain, and Aquila went with him to fight at the great battle of Badon Hill, as the commander of what had been the High King Ambrosius's bodyguard. Thanks to Carmarthen for last minute beta reading.
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Artos has a plan that may be the saving of Britain. When he seeks out Aquila's help, Aquila discovers he must give up more than mere knowledge—and perhaps gain something new in return. Set between the chapters White Thorn and Yellow Iris and 'Minnow, Dolphin's Son'.
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"The worst of it, Flavia thinks, is that this does not feel like a betrayal."
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In the First-Fading by Leyna for Sineala
Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff, SUTCLIFF Rosemary - Works
28 Jul 2012
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"In the first-fading of the short winter's day, Alexios stood ... looking out northward along the line of the road."
Images from the final scene. ( colour Digital painting)
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"Isn't it always so?" Flavia said. "The men fight, and after the fighting, the women fall to the conquerors."