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Edwin, the deposed king of Northumbria, seeks refuge at the court of King Raedwald of East Anglia. But Raedwald is urged to kill his guest by Aethelfrith, Edwin's usurper. As Edwin walks by the shore, alone and at bay, he is confronted by a mysterious figure - the missionary Paulinus…
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I did not expect to like this novel. It looks like yet another saga of lots of sweaty guys whacking each other with swords. And yes, the heavily perspiring males are there with the long pointy metal things to boot.
But in his tale of the rise and fall of King Edwin of Northumbria (reigned 616-633 CE), the author deftly brings out the mindset of a society based on constant competition between rival warbands. He probes the motives behind Edwin’s ultimate adoption of Christianity with its promise of a way out of the endless treadmill of war and violence.
It…
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