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The Dolphin Ring

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The Dolphin Ring	comment	The Dolphin Ring sequence is a Generational Saga of eight Historical Fiction novels by Rosemary Sutcliff set in Britain from the Roman period to the Norman conquest.The eight books of the sequence were published out of chronological order from 1954 to 1997 and have never been marketed as a series. note The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, and The Lantern Bearers are often packaged as a trilogy by the Oxford University Press. "Dolphin Ring" is a Fan Nickname derived from the linking device of a signet ring passed down through the Aquila family to their Roman-British, Welsh, and Norse descendants. The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) The Silver Branch (1957) Frontier Wolf (1980) The Lantern Bearers (1959) Sword at Sunset (1963) Dawn Wind (1961) Sword Song (1997) The Shield Ring (1956)Though this page presents the series in chronological order, connections between books are distant (pretty much just the ring), and none require any knowledge of the others. Only The Lantern Bearers and Sword at Sunset share a setting and characters. The series also contains slight connections to the rest of The 'Verse of Sutcliff's historical fiction (e.g., the woes of the Ninth Legion feature in Song for a Dark Queen, Eagle's Egg, The Eagle of the Ninth, and Swallows in the Spring). Four novels of the sequence currently have their own pages, and the remaining four are divided into folders on this page, as their contents are essentially independent.The Eagle of the Ninth, The Shield Ring, and The Silver Branch were shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The Lantern Bearers was the winner for 1959.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
The Dolphin Ring / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Bjarni's accidentally drowning the missionary gets him exiled from his settlement to walk the earth, because his chief guaranteed safety to Christians in his lands. Bjarni eventually runs into the chief's Christian foster-brother and conveys his forgiveness back to the chief.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Dolphin Ring / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The Lantern Bearers is markedly grimmer and more adult than its predecessors in the Dolphin Ring series.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_15666da9	type	The Rustler
The Dolphin Ring / int_15666da9	comment	The Rustler: Owain and Regina are finally convinced to leave Viroconium by an ugly encounter with a band of British cattle thieves. The horror of seeing their fellow Britons preying on their own people drives them to abandon Britain altogether for Brittany.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Dolphin Ring / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Flavian, but Aquila is so bad at dadding that Flavian's given up on him in favour of Artos by the time he's old enough to fight alongside them. Aquila is surprised and touched by Flavian's public declaration of Well Done, Father in support of Aquila's rescue of Mull.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Dolphin Ring / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.â€�
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The Dolphin Ring / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
The Dolphin Ring / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: The defeat of Kyndylan and Co. at the Battle of Dyrham/Deorham is the end of British resistance to the Saxon conquest and the end of Roman-Celtic British rule in the territory that is now England.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_1d3d3c32	type	Welcome to the Big City
The Dolphin Ring / int_1d3d3c32	comment	Welcome to the Big City: In one day in Dublin Bjarni gets laughed out of a job, robbed of his purse, and loses the rest of his possessions. He claims to have traded them for a stray dog.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
The Dolphin Ring / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: The aftermath of the Battle of Dyrham, in which the book opens. Owain wakes up on the battlefield to find himself the Sole Survivor and walks to Glevum in a fugue hoping to find the retreated war host, but there isnâ€™t one. He continues on to Viroconium because heâ€™s too much of a Shell-Shocked Veteran (at 14) to settle down with Priscilla and Priscus.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Dolphin Ring / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Regina the thieving, whining, louse-ridden beggar girl, whose name is Latin for 'queen'.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
The Dolphin Ring / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: Bjorn, who fights the last battle with a burnt hand and then spends the rest of the summer recovering from infection.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
The Dolphin Ring / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Ambrosius has no wife or children but he has unofficially adopted his brother's son, who eventually grows up to fight alongside him and Aquila.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Dolphin Ring / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Onund Treefoot is a Handicapped Badass who commands a Viking fleet. He lures his old enemies into battle where their numerical superiority is nullified and kills their commander while wearing a milking stool as a wooden leg. He later forces Jarl Sigurd to water his ships by foisting his infant only son on him as a foster-child.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_2d2c26c1	type	Daddy's Little Villain
The Dolphin Ring / int_2d2c26c1	comment	Daddy's Little Villain: Aquila happens to be in Hengest's burg just in time to see Hengest's beautiful daughter Rowena seduce Vortigern, whom she will shortly marry to tie him closer to her family's interests.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
The Dolphin Ring / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Frytha, who sometimes wishes she were a boy so she could join the Sword-band, and her "soft" friend Gerd, who nevertheless works alongside her in the war camps.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_2dc3e97c	type	Ghost Town
The Dolphin Ring / int_2dc3e97c	comment	Ghost Town: Viroconium, Glevum, and the other Roman cities that the British abandon after their princes are killed with Kyndylan become ruins that only people like Regina with nowhere else to go remain in.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Dolphin Ring / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The novel takes place in the gap between the Saxon defeat of the British and the conversion of the Saxons by Saint Augustine of Canterbury. The British resistance to the Saxon invasion having finally broken, Britons turn on each other and Owain and Regina scavenge to survive in the abandoned city of Viroconium.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
The Dolphin Ring / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: The Norse know that the Normans will eventually attack the Dale from the North, so they reroute their northern road into a narrow dead-end side-glen killing zone, which they call the Road to Nowhere.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Dolphin Ring / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Vadir lets his hounds savage Dog for no particular reason than because he belongs to a thrall, which is when Dog-loving Bryni conceives his everlasting hatred for him.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
The Dolphin Ring / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: Angharad's neighbours suspect she's a witch, because she uses Latin prayers in her doctoring, and because her hired sword Bjarni is clearly a white-haired, left-handed sea demon. They burn down her farm at the behest of her cousin who wants to steal her land.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
The Dolphin Ring / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Frytha's family farm in Lancashire gets burned in reprisal for a Norman knight's death, leaving her Conveniently an Orphan and refugee to the Dale.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Dolphin Ring / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Bjorn and Frytha learn their highest duty â€“ never to give away the Dale's location â€“ from the story of Ari Knudsen's friend who was tortured to death by the Normans. Ari Knudsen is then tortured to death shortly thereafter, and Bjorn gets a complex. Then, of course, Bjorn gets tortured.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Dolphin Ring / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Aikin the Beloved, Ari Knudsen's foster-son and the leader of the Sword-band, spends the rest of the book very quietly hating the Normans.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_4668be6f	type	Distinguishing Mark
The Dolphin Ring / int_4668be6f	comment	Distinguishing Mark: Invoked by Aquila and Flavia when he shows her his new dolphin tattoo and says that she could recognise him by it after twenty years apart: "Look, I'm your long-lost brother." She replies that anyone could get a bad tattoo and she'd know him by his beaky nose. The Saxons later name him Dolphin after the tattoo, and his wife points out that he can be sure his son is his because he's inherited the nose. When Aquila sends Flavia's son back to her, he makes him tell her about the tattoo and everything they did on the night they first talked about it.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_544b2bff	type	Signature Item Clue
The Dolphin Ring / int_544b2bff	comment	Signature Item Clue: Bjorn is rustled in the Norman camp because a young knight whom he had failed to kill recognises the emerald signet ring that flashed in his eyes when they fought six years before.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
The Dolphin Ring / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: Bjarni leaves a blue glass dolphin in a likely-looking glen before he leaves Rafnglas. When his five years are up and he brings the homeless Angharad back, he plans to make a land-take there.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Dolphin Ring / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: After Vortigern puts aside their mother in favour of Rowena, his sons Vortimer, Catigern, and Pascent offer their cousin Ambrosius (whose father, Constantine, their father assassinated) an alliance with those of the Welsh who don't favour closer ties with the Saxons.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The Dolphin Ring / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Frytha, whose turn is next, and then Bjorn gets to watch her! Heroically, however, Bjorn has no intention of talking no matter what they do to her. The possibility of Frytha talking to protect Bjorn never comes up, heroically or otherwise, because plotwise it's Bjorn's big moment, and watching without affecting the plot is Frytha's function in the novel.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
The Dolphin Ring / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: Everything tends to disappear behind a red mist for Bjarni whenever someone threatens either his dog or his employer. Strategically not killing someone is the apex of his character arc.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_6141b228	type	Full-Boar Action
The Dolphin Ring / int_6141b228	comment	Full-Boar Action: Owain's hotheaded charge Bryni Beornwulfson throws himself into a boar hunt to get the attention of the king, his father's foster-brother.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Dolphin Ring / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Aquila is so close to his sister Flavia that their tutor jokes they were twins born apart through cosmic error. Unfortunately the only thing he can do for her when they're separately abducted by Saxons is pray that she's dead instead of Defiled Forever. Twenty years later he saves the life of her Saxon son for her sake. Aquila offends Ness on their first meeting because he mocks her sister.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
The Dolphin Ring / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Aquila is a friendly, generous, optimistic soul until Saxon raiders murder his entire household, abduct his beloved little sister, and enslave him. And then he finds out that the king of Britain sent the raiders, because his father's co-conspirator betrayed him. And then his sister decides to stay with the guy who kidnapped her rather than get rescued by Aquila.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_6b898eb8	type	Post-Apocalyptic Dog
The Dolphin Ring / int_6b898eb8	comment	Post-Apocalyptic Dog: His name is Dog.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_6f546e9f	type	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
The Dolphin Ring / int_6f546e9f	comment	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!: While Ambrosius and the Romano-Britons believe that Divided We Fall, the Welsh faction led by Guitolinus sees a Romanised High King as a greater threat to their freedom than Saxons invading the lowlands. They acknowledged Vortigern's line as Cymric kings, but after Vortimer's assassination they seize the opportunity to leave his alliance with Ambrosius.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_7160b097	type	Dawn of an Era
The Dolphin Ring / int_7160b097	comment	Dawn of an Era: Most literally the arrival of St. Augustine "the Dawn Wind" of Canterbury and the revival of Christianity in Britain, but Christianity was never really gone, and the real progress is cooperation between Britons and Saxons.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Dolphin Ring / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "What else could I do?" Owain explains his Sadistic Choice to Einon Hen â€“ first, how he became a Saxon thrall, surrendering to save Regina; then, years later, how he postponed his freedom to protect his ex-owner's children. Little though he wishes to live in the Saxon world, common humanity outstrips Honor Before Reason.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Dolphin Ring / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Aquila and Ness eventually achieve a Perfectly Arranged Marriage, but they conceive their only child the Minnow in the first year of their marriage when they still resent each other.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
The Dolphin Ring / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Ambrosius's excuse for ordering his officers into marriage alliances with the Welsh while remaining a permanent bachelor.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
The Dolphin Ring / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: Bjorn develops a fear of torture, but volunteers to spy on the Normans. Sure enough...
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The Dolphin Ring / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
The Dolphin Ring / int_78be795b	comment	Changeling Fantasy: Uncle Widreth, Beornwulfâ€™s illegitimate great-uncle, prefers to claim that his mother was a selkie instead of a British woman. Heâ€™s both Owainâ€™s favourite member of the family and the spectre of lifelong thraldom.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Dolphin Ring / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Ambrosius's nephew is the bastard son of his late brother, but he's a hero in the making.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_7b7f1657	type	Canine Companion
The Dolphin Ring / int_7b7f1657	comment	Canine Companion: Bjarni's troubles begin because he drowned the man who kicked Astrid, the dog he brought to England from Norway. He washes up in Wales because he jumped overboard in a gale to rescue his second dog, Hugin.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Dolphin Ring / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Hengest, the warlord of the invading Jutes, makes a deal with Vortigern to fend off other Saxons in return for in southeast Britain. After marrying his daughter Rowena to Vortigern, he murders all his escort and holds him hostage for more land on "the Night of the Long Knives". After Ambrosius and Hengest fight to a standstill and reluctantly make terms, he spends the period of peace building up for a surprise attack just before the armistice is due to expire.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Dolphin Ring / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: The aristocrats in the story all have political marriages: Onund marries the daughter of one of his fellow sea lords, and Groa marries a Pict chief to ensure the safety of Thorstein's Caithness settlements. None of the women are overjoyed at the prospect, but they expect to be reasonably happy when they've settled in their new lives.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_814632ad	type	Last Bastion
The Dolphin Ring / int_814632ad	comment	Last Bastion: Butharsdale in the Lake Land is the last corner of England remaining outside Norman control.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
The Dolphin Ring / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Owain is never actually captured and forced into slavery. When Regina falls gravely ill, he surrenders them both to a Saxon farmwife in exchange for nursing, understanding that he and Regina will become thralls. The farm has no use for Owain, but Beornwulf, who happens to be staying there, takes Owain home with hime, separating him from Regina for more than a decade.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_860c8ce3	type	Wistful Amnesia
The Dolphin Ring / int_860c8ce3	comment	Wistful Amnesia: The Norman Shell-Shocked Veteran whom Frytha and Bjorn rescue can only recall that he once had a very nice orchard in Picardy.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Dolphin Ring / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Aquila never goes to see what became of his family's land, despite the fact that's it's quite close to the British headquarters and he's short of income.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Ambrosius's brother Utha died sometime ago. He's more significant in Sword at Sunset.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: Invoked. The people of the Dale will either get slaughtered or defeat the Normans and go home to their old lands, but either way it's the end of the secret settlement.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: Aquila saves the life of Flavia's son because he looks unmistakably like her.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_8f7059b	type	A Match Made in Stockholm
The Dolphin Ring / int_8f7059b	comment	A Match Made in Stockholm: Flavia herself can't say exactly how she feels about the Saxon chieftain's son who abducted her from the raid on their villa, then married her and gave her back their father's ring, but she isn't afraid of him and doesn't run away from him at the first opportunity. Aquila never learns any more about him or their relationship.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Dolphin Ring / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: It's the fifth century. There are priests, but Aquila loses his faith along with his family.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The Dolphin Ring / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: The Dale is in "Lake Land", or the Lake District, in the Cumberland Fells.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
The Dolphin Ring / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Red William's army use the Norse envoys' bodies as standards in their first battle. The ordinary Norman soldiers are more unnerved by it than the Norse.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Dolphin Ring / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod:
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The Dolphin Ring / int_a32a1881	type	Supporting Leader
The Dolphin Ring / int_a32a1881	comment	Supporting Leader: Jarl Buthar and Aikin the Beloved.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Dolphin Ring / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Invoked by Aquila and Brother Ninnias, who share an uncannily accurate feeling that they will meet three times, though their middle meeting has no particular plot significance except to establish the possibility of a third.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
The Dolphin Ring / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Rowena gets rid of Vortimer and precipitates an Enemy Civil War amongst the British by anonymously sending him a hawking glove with a poisoned pin stuck in one of the fingers.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_ad3c0e49	type	Master-Apprentice Chain
The Dolphin Ring / int_ad3c0e49	comment	Master-Apprentice Chain: Ari "Grey Wolf" Knudsen and his foster-son Aikin the Beloved, then Aikin and his nephew Gille Butharson.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Dolphin Ring / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Flavia is abducted by the Saxon raiders who kill the rest of their household and leave him for dead, and he spends the next three years hoping that she's dead. Not only is she not dead, she married her captor and declines to run away from him, and Aquila's character arc for the rest of the book is about coming to terms with this perceived betrayal.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Dolphin Ring / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Bjarni is exiled at sixteen and has the next five years to debate whether he ever wants to go back. There is running commentary on the progress of his beard.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Dolphin Ring / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Bjorn is not only a Proud Warrior Race Guy, he's a better harper than the Norman who does it for a living. As a kid he can beat up a rival two years older than him. He has one great fear (because he's more imaginative than other people), which he volunteers to face for the sake of his country and overcomes with flying colours, then no-big-deals it back to fight the climactic battle while injured, side-by-side with his won-over childhood enemy. And he does all this with a "faintly mocking gaze."
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The Dolphin Ring / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
The Dolphin Ring / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Three separate blood feuds in the course of the novel, all based on historical accounts: Onund Treefoot ambushes Vestnor and Vigibjord for killing his younger brother; Onund kills the man who was given his land, then kills the man who killed his grandfather in retaliation, then defeats the man sent to avenge that man; Melbrigda's son tries to kill Guthorm for his father's improper burial, gets killed by Thorstein, and then his brother kills Thorstein and Bjarni kills him.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
The Dolphin Ring / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: Several, as you expect from island-dwelling Vikings: Onund's vixen-headed longship Sea Witch and the rest of the Barra fleet; Lady Aud's galleys, swan-headed Fionoula and Seal Maiden built in the Caithness woods; and the merchantman Sea Cow, while not precisely cool, is effectively Bjarni's taxi from plot point to plot point.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Dolphin Ring / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Aquila is a bitter, angry Jerkass Woobie with no friends, an Arranged Marriage, and a distant son, who enjoys nothing but killing as many Saxons as he can reach.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_c4500946	type	Break His Heart to Save Him
The Dolphin Ring / int_c4500946	comment	Break His Heart to Save Him: Bjarni's beloved captain Onund chops off two of Hugin's toes to disqualify him as a sacrifice and throws Bjarni off his island to save him from a knife in the back. Bjarni does not immediately put this together.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Dolphin Ring / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Owain is freed after eight years, then almost immediately promises the wounded Beornwulf that heâ€™ll stick around for another four years until his reckless son Bryni comes of age. Then, as the end of the four years nears, he promises Beornwulfâ€™s wife Athelis another year to help fend Vadir Cedricson off her daughter Lilla. Itâ€™s his free but Sadistic Choice.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Dolphin Ring / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: On the night Teitri the foal is born, Vadir Cedricson explains to Owain that Saxon kings used to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their people, and though the Saxons no longer sacrifice men, they do sacrifice the "king" of their horse herds, a White Stallion like Teitri. When Teitri later kills a man who tried to ride him, the Saxons interpret it as their still-powerful gods claiming a sacrifice in spite of the Christians' arrival.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_c6d0ce84	type	Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
The Dolphin Ring / int_c6d0ce84	comment	Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: Aquila lets his son the Minnow ride his warhorse for the first time to make up for reprimanding him too sternly (yet again.) He realises he's tainted the experience for Minnow by making it a compensation instead of a triumph. Then the horse throws and nearly kills him, and they have a brief moment of closeness when Minnow wakes up days later, until Aquila is called away to battle (yet again.)
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The Dolphin Ring / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Dolphin Ring / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Flavia's phrase "a singing magic" is borrowed from Rudyard Kipling's "The Cat Who Walked By Himself" in the Just So Stories. Bruni's word "oar-thresh" is coined by a character in Kipling's "The Finest Story in the World".
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The Dolphin Ring / int_c960826	type	Supporting Protagonist
The Dolphin Ring / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: Frytha is the default point-of-view character, but most of the time she's just observing Bjorn, who is pretty clearly the actual protagonist. Frytha doesn't influence the plot except by discovering the mazelin.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
The Dolphin Ring / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: The fiery little hill preacher Priscilla drags Owain to listen to is the book's main representative of the survival of native Christianity in Britain before the coming of Augustine.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_d2a11313	type	Death of the Old Gods
The Dolphin Ring / int_d2a11313	comment	Death of the Old Gods: Three-fold. British Christianity is thought by Rome to have been wiped out by the pagan Saxon conquest, so St. Augustine "the Dawn Wind" is going to show up any day now to convert the Saxons. But the Saxon religion, though civilizing (no more Human Sacrifice unless it's really, really important) and eventually to disappear, is still going strong, and everyone knows that King Aethelbert of Kent tolerates Augustine with an eye to political expediency. Meanwhile, the Roman pagan gods like Pan Sylvanus are genuinely mostly forgotten.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Dolphin Ring / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Aud the Deep-Minded, who ends a feud after her son's murder, builds a secret boat in the forest of Caithness, and sails off to colonise Iceland, and out of respect for whom Bjarni accepts Christian prime-signing.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Dolphin Ring / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Beornwulf's foster-brother, the king of South Sussex.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Dolphin Ring / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: The Norse women are archers and fight in the last battle in direct defence of the Dale.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
The Dolphin Ring / int_de15a322	comment	Tangled Family Tree: The main political players in the novel are all linked in kinship by Vortigern's marriage to Rowena. Ambrosius's father and Artos's grandfather Constantine is the brother of Severa, the first wife of Vortigern and the mother of his rebellious sons, Ambrosius's allies Vortimer, Catigern and Pascent. Rowena is, of course, the daughter of Hengest. Aquila's family, meanwhile, also links the Roman, Welsh, and Saxon factions: his wife Ness is the daughter of a Welsh chieftain while Flavia's husband's family are Saxon chiefs under Hengest.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Dolphin Ring / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: Supporting Leader Ambrosius Aurelianus is the son of the High King Constantine, assassinated by his brother-in-law, the usurper High King Vortigern. Ambrosius is prince of Arfon, but doesn't take the crown of High King until after the Battle of Guoloph.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Dolphin Ring / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Though it goes against the grain with Bjarni not to simply kill everyone when the villagers burn Angharad's farm, he realises that he'd leave Angharad defenseless. He tells her later that she's the only person for whose sake he has ever run away from a fight.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Dolphin Ring / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Regina is strongly associated with birds â€“ as a scavenger in Viroconium with no idea how to find food, she still uses some of her hoard of grain to feed the birds in Kyndylan's garden. A mosaic of Spring, a girl with a bird, in Pan Sylvanus's shrine reminds Owain of her so strongly that he no longer doubts that she's alive and waiting for his return.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Dolphin Ring / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Bjarni is a fictional character, but his bosses Onund Treefoot, Thorstein the Red and Aud the Deep-Minded were real people, as were Erp MacMeldin and Muirgoed; early settlers of Iceland whose life-stories were recorded in The Icelandic Sagas.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_e90f8e37	type	Lady Looks Like a Dude
The Dolphin Ring / int_e90f8e37	comment	Lady Looks Like a Dude: Frytha looks like a boy when she wears trousers and cuts her hair during the fighting season, and has a husky voice. She goes to the Norman camp as a Sweet Polly Oliver named Erik.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
The Dolphin Ring / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Bjarni is merely the employee of the Supporting Leader characters who actually drive the story, like Onund, Thorstein, Groa, and Aud. It's justified in that the plot is based on incidents of their real lives. And when he takes up with the fictional Angharad, the crux of his character growth requires him to be restrained and passive.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Wave-flame, the famous sword Ari Knudsen leaves to Aikin the Beloved.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_f52ae5d8	type	Enemy Civil War
The Dolphin Ring / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: A few years after Ceawlin of Wessex defeats Kyndylan, his disgruntled nephews Coel and Coelwulf turn against him. They ally with both Aethelbert of Kent, who hates him, and his liegeman the king of Sussex, and the still-independent British princes of Wales to crush Ceawlin between them.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
The Dolphin Ring / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Bjorn and Frytha, who meet when they're five and six and stick together ever afterwards. They eventually get a Relationship Upgrade via Last-Minute Hookup, or at least, they answer a Call to Agriculture together, so we assume they do.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
The Dolphin Ring / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Ambrosius declines to take a hostage during his truce with Hengest to make the point that their sacred oath should be binding enough. Hengest is visibly unimpressed by Honour Before Reason.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
The Dolphin Ring / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Bryni loathes Vadir so much that the rest of the family keeps it a secret from him when Vadir asks to marry Lilla, lest Bryni try to kill him. Eventually, of course, Vadir can't resist throwing the tacit betrothal in his face.
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The Dolphin Ring / int_ff41780	type	Young Future Famous People
The Dolphin Ring / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: Ambrosius's nephew and eventual cavalry commander, Artos the Bear.
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Carnegie Medal	seeAlso	The Dolphin Ring
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