Viking Wrath (26 page)

The place names are accurate and the mountain above Coniston is called the Old Man. The river is not navigable up to Windermere but I have allowed my warriors to carry their drekar as the Vikings did in the land of the Rus when travelling to Miklagård. The ninth century saw the beginning of the reign of the Viking. They raided Spain, the Rhone, Africa and even Constantinople. They believed they could beat anyone!

Wolves were often hunted in January when the she wolves had cubs and the sense of smell of the wolves became affected by the cold. Hunters often used a variety of smells to disguise them. The north had wolves roaming until the fifteenth century and in Norman times part of the remit of the knights of the north was to keep the wolf population down.

During the time the book is set there was a war between two brothers for the kingdom of Gwynedd. Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog was based in Anglesey and the war was fought largely on Anglesey. He finally defeated his brother, Cynan ap Rhodri. His power base was at Aberffaw.

I used the following books for research

• British Museum - ‘Vikings- Life and Legends’
  
• ‘Saxon, Norman and Viking’ by Terence Wise (Osprey)
  
• Ian Heath - ‘The Vikings’. (Osprey)
  
• Ian Heath- ‘Byzantine Armies 668-1118 (Osprey)
  
• David Nicholle- ‘Romano-Byzantine Armies 4
  th
  -9
  th
  Century (Osprey)
  
• Stephen Turnbull- ‘The Walls of Constantinople AD 324-1453’ (Osprey)
  
• Keith Durham- ‘Viking Longship’ (Osprey)
  

Griff Hosker
May

2015

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