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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4904703, member: 110504"][USER=112809]@Aliasuk[/USER], bouncing off of [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]'s recommendations of Alfred Duggan, Henry Treece was writing others along similar lines, at around the same time. Both authors were more or less doing 'Young Adult Fiction' before the genre got a formal name. But, like that much of it now (at least by reputation), neither stinted on their esteem and expectations of the reader's intelligence.</p><p>The Treece I gravitated toward first was about the late phases of the Viking Age. (This while I was reading Icelandic sagas in the Penguin translations, c. 1970's.) The two titles that come to mind first (partly since I had to find a copy of one of them, years after the fact) are</p><p><u>Man With a Sword</u> (following the career of an Anglo-Dane, from maybe the 1040's into the reign of William the Conqueror) and</p><p><u>Splintered Sword</u> (about a kid from the Orkneys, at the end of the 11th century, and his adventures. Spoiler: he winds up in the household of a particularly notorious, but here remarkably benign, Norman earl in Cumbria).</p><p>I remember both of these for the combination of relatively dense historical context and psychological insight. Granted, the latter is pretty relentlessly gender-specific. But for something on a more relaxed level than some of the rest of it, they might be another option.</p><p>...But only if you're okay with hanging out in the Middle Ages for a minute! My favorite Alfred Duggan has to be <u>Lord Geoffrey's Fancy</u>. That one is about a 13th-century English knight who winds up at the court of William de Villehardouin, 'Frankish' prince of Achaea, 1246-1278. ...Just So Happened that I'd just gotten my very first denier of him, and was starving for anything about the milieu from the local public library. Except, for the genre, it's Also a good book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4904703, member: 110504"][USER=112809]@Aliasuk[/USER], bouncing off of [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]'s recommendations of Alfred Duggan, Henry Treece was writing others along similar lines, at around the same time. Both authors were more or less doing 'Young Adult Fiction' before the genre got a formal name. But, like that much of it now (at least by reputation), neither stinted on their esteem and expectations of the reader's intelligence. The Treece I gravitated toward first was about the late phases of the Viking Age. (This while I was reading Icelandic sagas in the Penguin translations, c. 1970's.) The two titles that come to mind first (partly since I had to find a copy of one of them, years after the fact) are [U]Man With a Sword[/U] (following the career of an Anglo-Dane, from maybe the 1040's into the reign of William the Conqueror) and [U]Splintered Sword[/U] (about a kid from the Orkneys, at the end of the 11th century, and his adventures. Spoiler: he winds up in the household of a particularly notorious, but here remarkably benign, Norman earl in Cumbria). I remember both of these for the combination of relatively dense historical context and psychological insight. Granted, the latter is pretty relentlessly gender-specific. But for something on a more relaxed level than some of the rest of it, they might be another option. ...But only if you're okay with hanging out in the Middle Ages for a minute! My favorite Alfred Duggan has to be [U]Lord Geoffrey's Fancy[/U]. That one is about a 13th-century English knight who winds up at the court of William de Villehardouin, 'Frankish' prince of Achaea, 1246-1278. ...Just So Happened that I'd just gotten my very first denier of him, and was starving for anything about the milieu from the local public library. Except, for the genre, it's Also a good book.[/QUOTE]
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