AUTHOR’S NOTE IN HIS 2020 BOOK Children of Ash and Elm, Viking Age scholar Neil Price says that “History is . . . sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past.” I took this idea further by making The Weaver and the Witch Queen a work of historical fantasy instead of historical fiction, but there are a few things I want to mention in regard to what historians know versus what I filled in or created to fit my narrative.
