4 Works in Dark Ages
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[Art] Bedwyr sings in the mead hall of Cador of Dumnonia by bunn
Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliff
4 Mar 2013
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Bedwyr joins the Companions of Artos.
"On a wild night of late September, with the first of the autumn gales beating about the thatch, we supped again in Cador's mead hall, I with the great gaunt joyful head of Cabal on my knee... And the torchlight and the heather beer seemed the more golden for the triumphant knowledge of fine big-boned Septimanian stallions and the brood mares picketed within the ring fence of the Dun.Bedwyr, with dark smudges beneath his eyes - for the last crossing, with the Black One on board, had been no easy one- had come from his fairly won place among the Companions and sat on the harper's stool beside the hearth, and sang for us, or maybe for himself, the triumph song of Arwas the Winged after he slew the Red Boar"
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England, year 998. By will of Gods Dean the Berserk's ship goes off course and it lands at the Isle Of Wight, where he encounters a local lord Castiel. Their first meeting is disastrous, both warriors try to kill each other, but after they're both captured by Castiel's rival lord Alastair, Dean has to do everything to survive and keep heavily wounded Castiel alive.
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Flavia, brought up in the last lingering light of Roman Britain, was carried off from her burning home by a 'laughing giant' of a Saxon, in a raid during which her father and friends were brutally killed. Three years later, her brother found her again - married, and with a child by that same 'laughing giant'. Given the chance to escape back to the part of Britain still held by the Roman British, with her brother and her child, she chose to stay with her husband rather than go with her brother.
This story explores what those years were like for Flavia, and how she could come to make that choice.
Although there is a threat of rape in this story, I don't feel it counts as non-con within the setting and culture of the period. Contains suicidal thoughts, Christianity, culture clash, Anglian pagan religion, magic.
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A remote, stony isle in what wasn't called the Dark Ages yet: the monks have their angel, the Vikings their demon, and this can't end well. For the humans, anyway: the immortals have their own Issues to resolve. Art by Quantum_Witch.
Series
- Part 1 of Internal Rhyme series