Wulfhere has started a new life with a gang of outlaws. His first act is to lead them to an unfortunate who makes a huge mistake; going into the forest alone.
battles
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 09
What would life be like living in a city captured by your ancient enemy?
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 08
Coenred finds himself in Tadcaster with the remnants of the Saxon army that fought at Fulford Gate. Ever the warrior, he starts training the men for another expected encounter with the Vikings. Here is an opportunity for his fellow huscarl, Thrydwulf, to step forward and illustrate the kind of training that a Saxon soldier would have received in 1066.
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 07
It is a fact that Duke Guilaume of Normandy had a hostage that he hoped to use against King Harold of England, his younger brother, Wulfnoth. The boy had been kidnapped by the Norman priest and spent much of his life as a prisoner of the Duke of Normandy.
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 06
It is a general rule in writing that you should not allow a significant character disappear from the telling of the tale without accounting for their absence.
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 05
After the burial of her husband, Branda turns to her good friend, Mildryth, for comfort. She knows that Mildryth has already passed through this ordeal, indeed it was worse for her; Mildryth lost both her husband and son and everything that they had ever owned in one fell swoop. How could anyone survive such pain?
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 04
The weather might be glorious but the situation for Coenred and his fellow Saxon warriors is the exact opposite. In the absence of their lords, Coenred takes the survivors of the Battle of Fulford Gate to Tadcaster, hoping to meet with the army that must come from London to rescue York
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 03
Hardrada had not traveled to England for pillage and plunder like his ancestors before him, he had come for the crown itself. York was to be his capital in the north until such time as he could kill King Harold and make the move to London himself.
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 02
Wulfhere was not a warrior and he was quick to prove that at the Battle of Fulford Gate. The following day finds him hiding in a nearby forest, no longer pretending to be a butescarl, a mercenary, but with a small stash of treasure that he looted from the bodies of dead and injured Saxon warriors.
For Rapture of Ravens – Let’s Read and Discuss 01
Viking warriors are tasked with taking the news of their victory to the settlements that ring York. Hardrada, it seems, has a notion that when the descendants of their people who have settled in England hear the news of the battle they will flock to his banner. It just happens to be Coenred's luck that, as they make their weary way to Tadcaster, his men meet with a group of Vikings in a Saxon village.
Peter C Whitaker 