The edge on the sword
By: Rebecca Tingle.
Publisher: Putnam's
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Ethelfled, -- d. 918 -- Juvenile fiction; Heads of state -- Juvenile fiction; Anglo-Saxons -- Juvenile fiction; Vikings -- Juvenile fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Alfred, 871-899 -- Juvenile fiction; Mercia (Kingdom) -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: 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.