The wait for this was worth it. It almost overwhelms me to think of the work Nicole Griffith must have done to create this huge story.

Reading Menewood made me feel like I was living in 632 AD.

In her endnotes, Griffith talked about how she dealt with the all the complicated and hard to pronounce names. She really did her best. What worked for me was to just let the names wash over me. The ones that mattered eventually stuck in my brain.

Watching Hild build up her community made me want to play one of those simulation games where you start with a hut and build it into a functional village.