![]() ![]() Spring in the Reign of King Henry I Northern England ![]() Untamed is the answer to my questions about what an unusual Saxon lady and a determined Norman lord might make of a marriage decreed by a distant English king. What would happen if an unusual Norman lord met up with the Saxon lady of my imagination? What if each wanted something from the otherâ¦something that was believed to be impossible? ![]() A few had the vision and determination to achieve more. ![]() Some of those men were satisfied with money and power alone. The men who earned the English king's favor in the First Crusade came back to the English islands with wealth and bleak memories of war. How would such a woman balance her duties to her heritage with her own yearning for a life that had more warmth than duty gave, and more fire even than the flames in the hearth? It was a time when the shape of the world was unknown, the universe was unknowable, and man held the night at bay only by torchlight.Įvery time I read about the twelfth century in the British Isles, I couldn't help wondering what it would be like to be a Saxon woman married off to a conquering Norman lord for the English king's convenienceâespecially if the woman in question had a mystical connection to her Saxon land and people. Just the word “medieval” conjures up visions of knights and ladies, candles and castles, unicorns and dragons. The more you go back in time and history, the more magical the possibilities become. ![]()
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