I liked reading about some of the smaller kingdoms, including Alt Clud, which was actually in Vanished Kingdoms, a book I found incredibly interesting nearly a year ago, about kingdoms and provinces in Europe that have since been forgotten.Īs for Hild, all this means is that she has to keep Edwin’s favor but at the same time weigh what might happen if one of the other kings surge in power and she’s no stranger to battle. They each hold one piece of what is now a whole, but that is not treated as a foregone conclusion in the slightest. She is the seer of just one petty king in a Britain full of them. She freely admits that she’s completely made up the vast majority of Hild’s story – it is fiction, after all – but the surroundings and the life that Hild lives are entirely possible for a girl in seventh century Britain.
The author for this book has done a lot of research into the period and it shows.
Her mother, and then she, schemes to keep their rightful place, and Hild becomes a seer for her uncle, King of Northumbria. Not only does she have to handle difficult and uneasy politics, but she also has to deal with the regular struggles of any young girl growing into a woman. But Hild’s father dies when she is only a child, throwing her world into uncertainty. Little Hild is born into this world as the daughter of a prince, her mother prophesying before her birth that she will be the light of the world. Seventh century Britain is a harsh world, comprised of petty kings and their domains, haunted by the frequent spectre of war.
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