Old Norse and Old English in the Viking Age: For an in-depth study of the linguistic contact, mutual intelligibility, dialects, and ability of Anglo-Saxon and Norse speakers to communicate see Matthew Townend’s Language and History in Viking Age England, Linguistic Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English, Studies in the Early Middle Ages, Vol. 6, Brepols Publishers.
Author Biography
Kathleen Kirkwood is the pseudonym for award-winning, best-selling author Anita Gordon. Having an abiding love for history, she enjoys setting her stories in distant times and places long past. To date they include Medieval adventures and Late Victorian paranormal romances. After forty years of travels and raising children in various locations, Kirkwood and her husband have returned to the Southwest where they first met. Currently, she is dusting off and revising her backlist for release in digital and print format. She is also working on a new novel, a haunting tale set on the Chesapeake Bay and the shores of historic Southern Maryland. Look for PIRATES’ MOON in late 2013. Visit her at:
www.kathleenkirkwoodhistoricals.com
http://kathleenkirkwood.blogspot.com
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THE VALIANT HEART
Book #1 of the HEART Trilogy
A golden warrior of the North . . .
A beautiful heiress and pawn of the king . . .
Love unexpected, bringing peril to all . . .
As Norse and Frank meld into a new people — the Normans.
Their love will burn brightly through all the ages to come.
www.KathleenKirkwoodHistoricals.com/valiant.html
THE DEFIANT HEART
Book #2 of the HEART Trilogy
A shining warrior of the North . . .
A maiden of Ireland enslaved . . .
Passions unforeseen as fate sweeps them away
to far distant lands . . .
And a love no chains can bind . . .
http://www.KathleenKirkwoodHistoricals.com/defiant.html
A Highland Chieftain . . .
A Victorian Lady . . .
Drawn irresistibly through
the portals of time . . .
www.KathleenKirkwoodHistoricals.com/time.html
A widowed Victorian Lady . . .
A mysterious Viscount . . .
A remote and ancient castle . . .
Where ghostly residents stir anew . . .
www.KathleenKirkwoodHistoricals.com/shades.html
A knight returned from Crusade . . .
A maiden robbed of her birthright . . .
Mysteries to be solved . . .
Wrongs to be righted . . .
www.KathleenKirkwoodHistoricals.com/lady.html
Coming in Late 2013
Once every quarter of a century,
On the night of the blood red moon,
A ghostly ship sails forth,
Out of the mists of time . . .
http://www.KathleenKirkwoodHistoricals.com/pirates.html
Table of Contents
Dedication
Author’s Appreciation
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Author Biography
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