| The Legend of Hereward Contributor(s): Ripley, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 190628895X ISBN-13: 9781906288952 Publisher: Ostara Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Medieval Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.55 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "On mid-summer's eve in the year 1063, just before noon, two young men, heavily armed, rode into Bourne looking for a fight." It was the beginning of the Legend of Hereward - but which Hereward? Hereward The Outlaw? Hereward the Firestarter? Hereward the Plunderer? Hereward the Witch-Killer? Was he an English hero leading a last-ditch resistance against William the Conqueror and the invading Normans, whose exploits inspired the romantic myth of Robin Hood? Or was he a dangerous 'berserker' for whom murder, deceit and betrayal were constant companions? More than a century on from his short and violent life, it is the learned monk Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambriensis or Gerald de Barri) who has to piece together - and put a favourable gloss on - the legend of Hereward and reveal what happened at the siege of Ely and its Abbey, deep in the flooded and mysterious East Anglian Fens. |
