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Authors: Carol McGrath
The Vikings
, Else Roesdahl, Penguin, 1998
The Elder Edda: Myths, Gods and Heroes from the Viking World
, translated by Andy Orchard, Penguin Classics, 2013
The Russian Primary Chronicle
, Nestor the Chronicler, translated and edited by Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor, 1930
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, translated and edited by Michael Swanton, Phoenix Press, 2000
Russian Proverbs
, Chris Skillen, Appletree Press, 1994
These are only a few of the scores of texts I consulted when writing this novel. I must thank the Department of Slavonic Studies, Oxford where I read
The Russian Primary Chronicle
which I found utterly absorbing not only because of what it said but because of the poetry of those voices reaching down through the centuries to us from that very distant world. How can we ever forget them!
Carol McGrath
Carol's passion has always been reading and writing historical fiction. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and family. She taught History in an Oxfordshire comprehensive until she took an MA in Creative Writing at The Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast. This was quickly followed by an MPhil in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her debut novel,
The Handfasted Wife
, first in a trilogy about the royal women of 1066, was shortlisted for the RoNAS, 2014 in the historical category.
The Swan-Daughter
is the second in the trilogy. It is also a stand-alone novel. Carol can often be discovered in Oxford's famous Bodleian Library where she undertakes meticulous research for her novels.
Find Carol on her website:
www.carolcmcgrath.co.uk
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