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dmcke013 's review for:
Sworn Sword
by James Aitcheson
I don't know about you, but when I think of stories set in and around that of the Norman Conquest of 1066, I tend to think of those told from the English point of view.
From those of the defenders, rather than the invaders.
Which is what makes this so unique to me: telling the tale from the Norman point of view.
This is set in 1068 - just a few years after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 - and follows the Norman Knight Tancred a Dinant, just after he is witness to an uprising that sees his own lord killed. Circumstances lead him to - temporarily - giving his oath to another lord in what-is-now York, who orders Tancred to deliver a message to a nun with ties to his (and England's!) past.
What follows is then Tancred's journey across the war-torn countryside, where he and his men - as Normans - are not exactly the flavour of the month, eventually culminating (after said message is delivered) in a battle back in York and in the revelation of a plot that could overturn the Norman domination of the land.
I'm looking forward to more by this author.
From those of the defenders, rather than the invaders.
Which is what makes this so unique to me: telling the tale from the Norman point of view.
This is set in 1068 - just a few years after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 - and follows the Norman Knight Tancred a Dinant, just after he is witness to an uprising that sees his own lord killed. Circumstances lead him to - temporarily - giving his oath to another lord in what-is-now York, who orders Tancred to deliver a message to a nun with ties to his (and England's!) past.
What follows is then Tancred's journey across the war-torn countryside, where he and his men - as Normans - are not exactly the flavour of the month, eventually culminating (after said message is delivered) in a battle back in York and in the revelation of a plot that could overturn the Norman domination of the land.
I'm looking forward to more by this author.