Raymond Fawcett

It's an old book, so some of the information is not up to date. It's a small book for kids in which the information is all presented as seen by a traveler, so it's easy to take. There are lots of images (although they have the older reconstructions of the lyre as a harp and the helmet) which I liked a great deal, especially the image of the procession of goods to the grave ship. The author has chosen 656 as the burial- a year after the battle of Winwæd on the concept that the East Anglian King Æthelhere's body would not have been recovered and early theories had the burial as a before they found chemical indicators of there having been a body. (Current theory holds that it is the grave of Rædwald, Æthelhere's uncle.) There were a few other small updates modern historians would make (women didn't wear paired shoulder brooches anymore except in Mercia), but it's a fine little book.… (lisätietoja)