Hild

A Novel

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Nicola Griffith, Pearl Hewitt: Hild (2014, Macmillan Audio)

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Published July 3, 2014 by Macmillan Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-4272-5923-3
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reviewed Hild by Nicola Griffith (The Hild Sequence, #1)

Hild

4 stars: loved this book, would recommend

This was a reread but it's been a long time - I remembered almost nothing of it. It is a work of historical fiction about the very early years of a woman about whom very little is known but who eventually became a saint.

I feel like I had an easier time reading it the first time though - I spent a lot of time rereading pages and flipping back to try and figure out what was going on. I didn't have a lot of trouble with the Old English words sprinkled throughout, most were clear from context, doubly so if you've read a lot of fantasy, and I think helped disconnect them from words with more modern connotations (e.g. a gesith is not exactly a knight), and it helped a lot that I had just played an online game set in a …

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