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Nicky
I liked The Shield Ring rather more than Sword Song, perhaps because it's back in the realms of history I'm not so familiar with. This one deals with the Norse facing off against the Normans -- which I wasn't aware of as an event, much less familiar with. It is funny to read stuff like this and read references to the battle of Clontarf, and suchlike, but it's not like reading something I'm too familiar with.

And strangely, just after I said about not seeing much of the female side of things, in S
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Sineala
Way better than Sword Song, this is very possibly one of my favorites of the Dolphin Ring series (it is also the last of the Dolphin Ring series) and I wish someone had told me before how awesome it was. Now we are just post-1066, and the invaders in this case are the Normans; our protagonists Frytha and Bjorn (bearer of the Dolphin Ring) grow up in an isolated stronghold and learn to fight against them.

This book has the excellent nature description that some of the earlier books were lacking, c
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Oreotalpa
Jun 09, 2011 marked it as to-read