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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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Aquila deserted the Eagles when they flew from Britain, but his friend Felix obeyed the call to defend failing Rome. Aquila never knew what had happened to Felix. This is his story.
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Splendid Things Gleam in the Dust by bunn
The Eagle | Eagle of the Ninth (2011), Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
17 Oct 2012
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Marcus and Esca find a trip to Egypt is more risky than they had expected...
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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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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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On the Road North by bunn
Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff, Eagle of the Ninth Series - Rosemary Sutcliff
31 Oct 2011
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A series of occasional stories set in the middle of Eagle of the Ninth, as Marcus and Esca travelled from Calleva, North to the Wall. It took them a month to do it and Marcus grew a beard on the way, so I reckoned there must have been a few stories to tell along the road.
I'm adding extra stories to this series as they occur to me so it will probably never be complete as such, but there is no grand plot arc beyond what is already in the book. Or at least, if there is I haven't thought of it yet :-D .
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The Long Road To Calleva by bunn
Eagle of the Ninth Series - Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle (2011)
30 May 2011
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Stories following Esca's life before he met Marcus in Calleva.
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