Select the quantity of the product you desire and click the 'Add' button. Book Hild is mealy-mouthed and cowed, and though she joins Uhtred to save Guthred, she seems more to be doing that because she is lost and looking for direction. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition. Series Hild stands up to Uhtred and protects him in a big sister type way and frequently calls him on his bullshit, and her love for him is so genuine. Working from what little historical record is extant, Griffith has brought a beautiful, brutal world to vivid, absorbing life. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future.Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early Middle Ages-all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith's luminous prose. And she is indispensable-unless she should ever lead the king astray. Hild, Abbess of Whitby, founded this Celtic-style double monastery in 657 A.D.

Hild establishes a place for herself at his side as the king's seer. She will become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby.But now she has only the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world-of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing her surroundings closely and predicting what will happen next-that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her.Her uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief.

Hild is the king's youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority.

A new religion is coming ashore the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: HildIn seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Book Synopsis Award-winning author Nicola Griffiths brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages.

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