Shadow on the Crown. Patricia Bracewell

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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007481767

      Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007481750

      Version: 2015-09-29

      For Lloyd, Andrew, and Alan

       The English Court, 1001–1005

       Æthelred II, Anglo-Saxon king of England

       Children of the English king, in birth order:

      Athelstan

      Ecbert

      Edmund

      Edrid

      Edwig

      Edward

      Edgar

      Edyth

      Ælfgifu (Ælfa)

      Wulfhilde (Wulfa)

      Mathilda

       Leading Nobles and Ecclesiastics

      Ælfhelm, ealdorman of Northumbria

      Ufegeat, his son

      Wulfheah, his son (Wulf)

      Elgiva, his daughter

      Ælfric, ealdorman of Hampshire

      Ælfgar, his son

      Hilde, his granddaughter

      Ælfheah, bishop of Winchester

      Godwine, ealdorman of Lindsey

      Leofwine, ealdorman of Western Mercia

      Wulfstan, archbishop of Jorvik and bishop of Worcester

      The Norman Court, 1001–1005

       Richard II, duke of Normandy

      Robert, archbishop of Rouen, brother of the duke

      Judith, duchess of Normandy

      Gunnora, dowager duchess of Normandy

      Mathilde, sister of the duke

      Emma, sister of the duke

      The Danish Royals

       Swein Forkbeard, king of Denmark

      Harald, his son

      Cnut, his son

      A.D. 978 In this year was King Edward slain at even-tide, at Corfe-gate, on the fifteenth before the kalends of April, and he was buried at Werham without any royal honours. Nor was a worse deed than this done since men came to Britain … Æthelred was consecrated king. In this same year a bloody sky was often seen, most clearly at midnight, like fire in the form of misty beams. As dawn approached, it glided away.

       – The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Map

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

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