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Decent, but not as gripping as other Sutcliff stories I've read. It's the story of how Randal, the orphan of a Breton knight and a Saxon woman, is rescued from his life as a dog-boy at age 10 and eventually becomes a knight himself, and of his close friendship with a Norman boy, Bevis.
It's also a story of how the Norman ruling class and Saxons came to have a common English identity. The climactic scene is the battle of Tenchebrai against the still-French Normans, which the English won by using s ...more
It's also a story of how the Norman ruling class and Saxons came to have a common English identity. The climactic scene is the battle of Tenchebrai against the still-French Normans, which the English won by using s ...more
