The Edge on the Sword

Description:

In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.

subjects: Anglo-Saxons,  Fiction,  History,  Juvenile fiction,  Kings, queens, rulers,  Vikings

People: Aethelflaed,  Ethelfled (d. 918),  Ethelred of Mercia,  King Alfred,  Æthelflæd

Places: Great Britain,  Lunden,  Mercia,  Mercia (Kingdom),  Wessex

Times: 800s,  Alfred, 871-899