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An edition of The Edge on the Sword (2001)

The Edge on the Sword

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In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.

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Subjects

Anglo-Saxons, Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Kings, queens, rulers, Vikings

People

Aethelflaed, Ethelfled (d. 918), Ethelred of Mercia, King Alfred, Æthelflæd

Places

Great Britain, Lunden, Mercia, Mercia (Kingdom), Wessex

Times

800s, Alfred, 871-899
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Cover of: The Edge on the Sword
The Edge on the Sword
2003, Speak
Paperback in English
Cover of: The edge on the sword
The edge on the sword
2001, Putnam's
in English
Cover of: The edge on the sword
The edge on the sword
2001, Putnam's
in English

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Table of Contents

I. Late Winter
Page 1
1. Dusk
Page 3
2. Moonrise
Page 17
3. Midnight
Page 27
4. Red
Page 36
5. In the Great Hall
Page 48
II. Spring
Page 55
6. The Marsh
Page 57
7. Mercia Rallies
Page 67
8. A Mound on the Plain
Page 75
9. Mercia Bested
Page 84
10. Treachery
Page 95
11. Truce
Page 103
III. Summer
Page 113
12. The King's Council
Page 115
13. Battle Lessons
Page 120
14. Message to Mercia
Page 130
15. Waiting
Page 139
16. Ethelred
Page 147
17. The Race
Page 153
18. The Trap
Page 169
IV. Summer's End
Page 173
19. Leaving Home
Page 175
20. Blood Money
Page 191
21. Fortune's Wheel
Page 205
22. Dead Letters
Page 214
23. Hunter & Hunted
Page 222
24. Noble River
Page 238
25. Lady of the Mercians
Page 257
Historical Note.
Page 274

Edition Notes

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New York, USA
Copyright Date
2001

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
277p.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24332712M
Internet Archive
edgeonsword00
ISBN 10
0142500585
OCLC/WorldCat
52548901
Library Thing
96203

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