Gemæcce

The story of making a novel about Hild of Whitby

Latin for fourteen hundredth anniversary?

This year is the 1400th anniversary of Hild’s birth. According to Bede.* Given that her feast day is mid-November, and in my novel her birthday is mid-October, I’ve decided autumn would be a splendid time to celebrate.

Anglo-Saxon ethnic origin stories

It was a challenge to set aside the most recent hypotheses about the ethnogenesis of the English and write purely from Hild’s experience, her cultural perspective.