The Shield Ring

Rosemary Sutcliff

Boyds Mills Press, Aug 1, 2007 - Juvenile Fiction - 234 pages

High in the mountains of the Lake District is a secret valley where the Vikings have their last stronghold--their Shield Ring. The Normans seek to crush this group of Northmen and to bring all of England under their control. They build a castle in Carlisle and send an army north. Meanwhile, the Northmen lamb and harvest as though life were normal, but Ari Knudson sharpens Wave-flame and the Jarl prepares his War Host. Two youths of the village--Frytha, a Saxon girl who fled to the valley when the Normans burned her home, and Bjorn, the foster-son of the old harper--make ready, too. As the Norman's approach the secret valley, the Northmen recruit able bodies, and Bjorn volunteers to enter the Norman camp as a spy. Frytha knows Bjorn's deepest fear: that if he is captured, he will fall to Norman torture and reveal the location of the Shield Ring.

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Review: The Shield Ring (The Dolphin Ring Cycle #8)

User Review  - scarlettraces - Goodreads

a favourite from my childhood. in fact i illegally acquired it from family friends (borrowed it and never returned it). i don't still have that copy but this one is the same edition (with the C Walter ...

Review: The Shield Ring (The Dolphin Ring Cycle #8)

User Review  - Cynthia Haggard - Goodreads

This is the story of the last stand (or shield ring) that the Vikings made (with their Saxon friends) against the Normans who'd conquered England in 1066, and now wanted to make all of it under their ...

About the author

Rosemary Sutcliff wrote over fifty books, for which she received the Carnegie Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and a Hans Christian Andersen Highly Commended Author Award. She is the author of The Mark of the Horse Lord and was granted the title Commander of the British Empire for her body of work.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Shield Ring
• Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1590785223, 9781590785225
• Length: 234 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Europe; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Medieval; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Military & Wars; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Europe