The Shield Ring

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.

• Author
• Rosemary Sutcliff

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 235

• Series
• The Dolphin Ring Cycle

• Publisher
• Front Street Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781590785225

• Genres
• historical, fiction, childrens, classics, medieval, adventure, teen

• Release date
• 2007