The Song of Hild
eBook - ePub

The Song of Hild

  1. 456 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Song of Hild

About this book

Abbess Hild of Whitby was an extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times. In this exquisite translation of the #1 Danish bestselling novel Hildas sang, we are drawn into a world of dark dealings, powerful patriarchy and religious wrangling.

In the political and religious upheavals of the seventh-century British Isles, tensions between the Danish-German invaders and native Celts mirror power struggles masquerading as religious struggles that reverberate internationally today. In The Song of Hild we are brought face-to-face with the political manoeuvres of conflicting religions, the building of a double monastery, and the power exercised by the Church of Rome.

This is a gritty, powerful story about the prominent role women played in the spread of Christianity in seventh-century Britain.

"a bestseller of great literary quality"
Ekstra Bladet (from a review of the original Danish edition)

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Information

Publisher
Sacristy Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781910519868
eBook ISBN
9781910519882
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
British History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. A Map
  2. Rather a live dog than a dead lion
  3. Star the cow and the good-luck snakes
  4. Hounds, hares and lions
  5. The longest tale
  6. Plagued by demons
  7. The sparrow through the king’s hall
  8. The bell in Dolwyddelan
  9. Cædwalla’s calling
  10. A red-haired daughter
  11. The Lord gave . . . the Lord took away . . .
  12. Penda’s buckle
  13. ‘There was a little mouse . . . ’
  14. Capture the foxes, those little foxes!
  15. Joy and disgust
  16. Gold gladly given . . .
  17. Before seven summers have passed
  18. Under the wide open skies
  19. Nine times around the burial mound
  20. Hild’s mare and Thunor’s power
  21. War and peace
  22. Merewald and the filament
  23. Oswald’s head
  24. Lark song
  25. One wife too many
  26. A blessed place
  27. The vixen in the trap
  28. The hunger for action
  29. Seven gold rings for Eadfrid
  30. Latin for ‘a fly’
  31. Elephants and apricot trees
  32. After the Fall
  33. ‘ . . . but the way of the ungodly shall perish.’
  34. At the ends of the earth
  35. In the service of the Lord
  36. Luminous blue eyes
  37. A seamless tunic
  38. The deaf ear
  39. Twelve wild geese migrate southwards
  40. Young Wilfrid
  41. ‘Awake, awake, valiant warriors . . . ’
  42. Sacrificed for peace
  43. God seeks that which is past
  44. What the Lord joins together
  45. Maiden and mother
  46. Light of the world
  47. Heads without hair
  48. Plague
  49. The kingdom, the power and the glory
  50. Eostre’s lilies
  51. CĂŚdmon and the light
  52. Illustrations