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Description: Review of the book by Danny Yee.
King Hereafter (Dorothy Dunnett) - book review © 1996 http://dannyreviews.com/ is a fictional account of the life of Thorfinn II (1009-1057), Earl of Caithness and Orkney and then — in Dunnett's reconstruction — King of Alba (Scotland) and the figure on whom Shakespeare's Macbeth was based. Dunnett is best known for her Renaissance novels, but here she turns to the cold, stormy, only barely Christian northwest of Europe during the first half of the eleventh century. She brings to life the turbulent power politics of the region, the web of feuds, alliances, marriages, and betrayals linking rival powers in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Northumbria, Mercia, and Normandy and, further off, the Pope, the Emperor and the Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. (The accompanying maps and genealogies are essential for following events; the absence of a bibliography is unfortunate, since
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