| Autor: |
Burn, Ruth |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Informace o vydání: |
London : Brown Dog Books, 2022. |
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| Druh dokumentu: |
Online; Non-fiction; Electronic document |
| Abstrakt: |
Summary: This story is a work of historical fiction based on real people and events. It describes a troubled royal marriage during the course of one year in AD 675. _x000D_Mercia and Northumbria have long been at war. There is an unexpected romance. King Aethelred of Mercia and Osryth of Northumbria decide to marry. Aethelred gives Osryth a wedding gift of valuable treasure gleaned from the battlefields of the past. She decides in secret to take the treasure along with the remains of her long-dead uncle to a shrine in Bardney in Lincolnshire._x000D_Osryth faces many challenges and setbacks on her long journeys to places such as Whitby, Lincoln and later York. The loss of the gold, silver and jewels causes a rift in her marriage. The mystery looks unlikely to be solved. Will the treasure ever be found and will the couple ever be reconciled?. |
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Vybrané kolekce e-knih |
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