I know very well (that is, I think I know) that ‘harps’ in Hild’s time were essentially lyres, like this: reproduction of Sutton Hoo lyre at the British Museum However, story-wise my notions of ‘harp’ are so strong that I’ve taken the liberty of giving Anglo-Saxons gut-strung lyres, like the one above, and the British–especially […]

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