Hi
I have the three books (about 2000 pages!) of "The Saxon Chronicle" by
Jane Ellen Swan. A great historical fiction covering 782 AD to 1850 AD
of the Old Saxony area.
Since I've finished, I was just going to offer it free to anyone who
wants to read it. Just pay for shipping.
Here's a page sort of about it:
http://saxonchronicle.hypermart.net/saxonchronicle.htm
Thanks, Annette
And a review:
"While searching for some history of my ancestral areas in
Anhalt-Saxony, I came across this novel, and it has not disappointed
me!! While it is staged just a little bit further north, it is a better
history of Germany and even the Low Countries than you can get out of
most "world history books". Just last night I was tickled to find Sehnde
on a MapQuest map, just a few miles west and north of the area some of
my german ancestors are from!! The detail and careful connection to
geographical reality just keeps you knowing where you are in space there
while learning a detailed story about people from certain areas and
towns, and more general history about social movements as a whole. Two
maps help orient you also, but the author apologized for them saying
that's all the publishers would allow her. You won't be disappointed in
this Michener-type book if you want to know how old Germany developed
from way back and "who" developed her!! For instance, just now our main
characters are trekking with their horses and retinues south over the
Harz mountains to participate in Diet of Worms about the Inquisitional
happenings during the early "reformation" of the church. We learn as we
go thru specific towns who is on which side and how much!! We learn
where the dangerous areas were. The detail would even tickle ardent
neo-pagans!! Detail on the "old religion" before conversion at the point
of the swords of Charlemagne's men and the henchmen of the Catholic
church is fantastic!! The book is just highly recommended for history
and wonderful, mostly true, novel detail!!! Alot of philosophical
analysis is also bantered between the novel's characters. Her grasp of
history and philosophy is just exquisite, and probably quite unique to
that area of historical development. You won't be disappointed; even
some great real-life scenes and concerns! And don't forget, many of her
characters are real people, our ancestors!! I verified her very correct
detail on several in certain histories and genealogies."
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