-
Tangentially related, I’ve started reading The Winter King, about Arthurian England. I really enjoyed the second scene which centres around a royal birth, and gives reimagined colour to the witchcraft and religious practices that would have accompanied such events in the distant and ancient past (spoiler!): roaring fires on the snow-covered parapets; local children banging pots, women howling and guards hitting their spears on their shields to keep demons and witches away in the night; pagan magic/midwifery.
The book outlines a lot of human suffering that makes me damn grateful to be alive now, the author’s poetic license aside.
Eseman-
roaring fires on the snow-covered parapets; local children banging pots, women howling and guards hitting their spears on their shields to keep demons and witches away in the night
This is what happens when my cycling club appoints a new committee member.
-
You might (or there again, you might not) want to try The Sword At Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff. In this tale Arthur King is a post-Roman prince. Low on magic, high on (likely) realism
-
The Winter King
Read it years ago, it's great. Can't beat Bernard Cornwell for a historical novel. He of course wrote the Sharpe series of novels too.
EDIT: his novel Stonehenge covers the building of said monument.
kerplaagh
Cutthroat_Jake
MTB-Idle
You'd think. Although they've been moving pretty slowly. Took them 20 years to even find his stomach! To be fair, he is probably the world's oldest "surviving" murder victim...should probably figure out who did it.