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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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[emmy-roo.livejournal.com]

Oooh! It's been a long time since I read those! I remember that The Lantern Bearers was my favorite, though my sister preferred Eagle of the Ninth.

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I think _Eagle of the Ninth_ is my favourite too. I love Marcus and his ex-gladiator and his feral fiancée and his wolf :)

The Lantern Bearers is sooo sad. Flavia gone, and the farm, that wasn't just Aquila's and Flavia's, but Marcus's and Cottia's and Esca's and Flavius's and Justin's and Alexios's, and then even though Aquila's got Ness and the Minnow, they're all headed for that Arthur story and it never ends well.