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Historical person
987–1052
Emma of Normandy was queen consort of England through her marriages to Æthelred the Unready and Cnut. She was mother of Edward the Confessor and Harthacnut, survived repeated dynastic changes and commissioned the Encomium Emmae Reginae to defend her position and family’s claims.
In Cecelia Holland’s Kings of the North, after escaping Constantinople, Raef and his companions reach Normandy and are drawn back towards Jórvík. Anya Seton’s Avalon is set in 972. The Provençal nobleman Rumon is shipwrecked in Cornwall and takes responsibility for Merewyn, a young woman raised to believe she descends from King Arthur.
Series
The six-volume Corban Loosestrife saga begins in tenth-century Ireland when a Viking raid destroys Corban’s family and carries away his twin sister, Mav. His pursuit takes him through Dublin, Jórvík and Denmark before the family attempts a new life across the Atlantic. The later volumes shift much of…
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