Cuthbert's People Series

Christian Anglo-Saxons relied upon their local saints who replaced in their affections the old local gods they had looked to in their pagan past. For the people of Northumbria, the greatest of their local saints was Cuthbert of Lindisfarne. They were Cuthbert's people.

The Cuthbert's People series traces the repercussions of the Viking raid on Lindisfarne of 793 in the life of Attor, an aging Northumbrian thegn, his ambitious slave-born wife, Edith, and his daughters, the beautiful but wistful Elswyth and the accomplished but bitter Hilda, as the raid entwines their lives in the affairs of abbesses, kings, and Vikings.