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Historical person
Oswald was king of Northumbria from 634 to 642. After defeating Cadwallon of Gwynedd at Heavenfield, he restored Northumbrian power and invited Aidan from Iona to establish the monastery of Lindisfarne. He was killed by Penda of Mercia at Maserfield and was soon honoured as a Christian saint and martyr.
Edoardo Albert’s Oswald: Return of the King presents his return from exile, victory and attempt to unite kingship with Christian mission. Historical fiction about Oswald must work between Bede’s saintly portrait and the realities of conquest, tribute and dynastic warfare. His alliance with Iona makes him particularly important to stories about the meeting of Irish, British and Anglo-Saxon Christian traditions.
Series
The Hild Sequence reconstructs the early life of Hilda of Whitby from the few details preserved by Bede and places her within the unstable politics of seventh-century northern Britain. Nicola Griffith imagines Hild first as a perceptive child and royal kinswoman at the court of Edwin of Northumbria,…
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