Martin Jensen
Autor de The King's Hounds
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Series
Obras de Martin Jensen
Engineering and Technology, 1650-1750: Illustrations and Texts from Original Sources (Dover Science Books) (2002) 11 copias
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Miembros
- 425
- Popularidad
- #57,429
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 24
- ISBNs
- 89
- Idiomas
- 3
This Danish mystery is set in England a few years after King Cnut (Canute was the way I would have spelled it) began ruling. I found this early medieval setting, when Angles, Jutes, Saxons, and Danes (Vikings) were first coming together into a unified country very interesting. While I had heard of King Canute before, I hadn't really realized that there was a time when England (and apparently Ireland too?) was under the rule of the Danes. One thing I would have liked that was missing was an appendix with definitions of some of the historical terms (such as housecarls, Witenagemot, etc.). Most of the meanings became clear from the context but it would have been a nice addition to the book.
I liked the use of the Saxon Winston coupled with Halfdan, a young dispossessed nobleman -- whose mother was Danish and father Saxon -- as main characters. Not only do the two provide a way to see different ethnicities but Winston had a background in the religious life (monasteries and abbeys) while Halfdan knew more about the "wild" side of life from his days of living hand-to-mouth. The murder investigation by these two was fine with the caveat that this was not a mystery that the reader could solve before the 'detectives'. I will be reading more from this series.… (más)