Antonia answers “How historically acurate is this? Both...”

Jenny asked this question about Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1):

How historically acurate is this? Both language wise as well as facts concerning the characters and events?

Antonia I caught a few bloopers - not that I'm a historian - but very few - a mention of drinking madeira rather than malmsey (possibly a text recognition err…moreI caught a few bloopers - not that I'm a historian - but very few - a mention of drinking madeira rather than malmsey (possibly a text recognition error in the Kindle edition) and a lot of talk of sugar in an era when honey was the sweetener available to most, and marzipan rather than marchpane. Sugar had reached the UK after the first crusade and would have been available to the elite but its use even in noble houses wouldn't have been as liberal as the books make it appear. For the most part the books are steeped in verified details of life.

Sugar was available in London at two shillings a pound in 1319 AD. This equates to about £70 or $100 per kilo at today's prices and it would have been costler still in the century or so before.(less)

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