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Northern Crown

by

Richard Denning

Northern Crown is historical fiction set at the turn of the 6th and 7th Centuries.

 

The main character Cerdic grows up in a Saxon village in Northumbria hearing tales and poems of great warriors in battle. However when war comes for real in his 15th year he is forced to confront its reality. Returning from the battle he turns his back on the warrior life and plans to live quietly as a farmer. However fate will not allow him this luxury. He is thrown into a struggle between rival royal houses, is forced to accompany a prince into exile, spends time as a slave and finds his family have a personal enemy. With courageous friends and determination he is able to restore the rightful king and to gain his own revenge.

 

I am reading Northen Crown as weekly chapters. See below for the details. If you would like to comment - critism as welcome as compliments please email r.denning@btinternet.com

 

Enter the following in the address box of itunes, iPodder or other software:

http://www.itstime4games.com/Portals/0/sound/northerncrown.xml

 


  

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"BUT I DON'T HAVE iTUNES!"Well  thats ok. Below I have direct links to mp3 files if you prefer just to download them. They are fairly large files so will take  a short while to download.

Download Northencrown chapter by chapter:

Chapter 2 of Nortern Crown : The Warriors Way

http://www.itstime4games.com/Portals/0/sound/Northerncrownchapter2.mp3

A visit to the nearby town of Weighton with his father and brother shows Cerdic that someone at least does not appreciate him or his family. But we have yet to find out who and why. Soon afterwards Cerdic and his friends begin to be tutored by Grettir – an old friend of the family in the warrior’s art. We see Cerdic grow up to a youth who is gaining some of the authority that his father as Lord of his village has. He also starts to show some interest in Elfreda – a girl from the village. During training sessions he again encounters animosity in the form of the youth Hussa from Weighton. Hussa however will not say why he hates Cerdic.

            From beyond the village we hear of the rise to power of Aethelfrith a great warrior lord and king of Bernicia – a nation to the north. Rumours of gathering war clouds concern the villagers. The rumours prove true as smoke is seen rising from both the villa and Weighton. It is a raid from the neighbouring Welsh kingdom of Elmet.

 

Chapter 1 of Nortern Crown : The Villa

http://www.itstime4games.com/Portals/0/sound/Northerncrownchapter1.mp3

Cerdic recalls the events that forged Northumbria from a chaotic pagan past to a civilised literate Christian nation in his old age. But his interest is not in writing history but telling the story of the men and women who were part of it. His tale begins in his early childhood in a Saxon Village in the small nation of Deira on the Humber. In the quiet world of the farm he and his friends the agile but short Cuthbert and the huge but kindly brute Eduard long to live out the adventures they hear in the tales of poets and bards. We also hear of the struggle between Cerdic’s people – the Saxons and the native Welsh in the years after the fall of Roman Britain.


  

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