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[owl]

I'm reading at the minute Rosemary Sutcliff's series of novels set in Roman Britain (starting with The Eagle of the Ninth). I'm going slowly through Frontier Wolf at the minute, because next after that is The Lantern Bearers and, ow!

Incidentally, it was only this evening that I finally made the connection between the cognomen Aquila and the big birds stuck up on the poles. I haven't the slightest excuse for it, seeing as the characters repeatedly refer to the Legions as the Eagles, and I had explicitly made the connection between 'Aquila' and the family nose. :)

I don't seem have a suitable icon for this, really; I'm using Ireland, north because it has a few bits of Britian showing at the sides.

Also, is coughingbear ok?

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[owl]

The one with (?)Owain? Family killed off by Saxons, anyone notice a running theme here?

[aella_irene]

Well, the Saxons do make useful villains...

And there's another one afterwards, Sword Song, but the connection only becomes obvious at the end. Interestingly, all of her books that I've read have a recurring Dolphin motif.

[owl]

Marcus's dolphin ring still going strong?

[aella_irene]

Yes, for Sword Song. In 'The Armourer's House', its somewhat more subtle- they live in 'Dolphin House.'

[owl]

It's stretching my credulity a little that the ring was handed down over so many centuries in the same family without getting lost....What's The Armourer's House and when's it set?

[aella_irene]

It's stretching my credulity a little that the ring was handed down over so many centuries in the same family without getting lost...

Well, it was a valued family heirloom, and if it went from father to son, and was constantly worn they might just manage it...

The Armourer's House is Tudor period, set about 1550 or so (it has a cameo by Ann Boleyn). It's about an orphan girl called Tamsyn, who goes to live with her uncle's family.