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The Shining Company is based on Y Gododdin, which I didn't know before I started reading it. Obviously, that quickly became clear once we started into the story, and it quickly eclipsed the small, domestic, human life that opened the story. Leaving the woman who has been centrally important so far behind, never to be seen again, and rarely mentioned -- not surprising, for Sutcliff, but disappointing. Luned or Niamh or the queen -- I forget if she was ever given a name of her own -- could've been
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A decent Sutcliff novel, although not one that I enjoyed as much as I thought I would, given that everyone else loves this one to pieces.
It's a retelling of Y Gododdin, a medieval Welsh epic about a battle against the Saxons, from the point of view of Prosper, one of the warriors' shieldbearers. It contains a lot of things I generally enjoy in Sutcliff's work: nature description, the sense that all this is built on the people who have come before, loyalty, friendship, epic battles, a sense of th ...more
It's a retelling of Y Gododdin, a medieval Welsh epic about a battle against the Saxons, from the point of view of Prosper, one of the warriors' shieldbearers. It contains a lot of things I generally enjoy in Sutcliff's work: nature description, the sense that all this is built on the people who have come before, loyalty, friendship, epic battles, a sense of th ...more
Jun 04, 2014
Stephen
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it was amazing
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