Author's Note & Chapter 1 | Her story begins
Hild's Tale | A Serialised Historical Fiction Novel
Author’s Note
A summary of Hild’s life is preserved in a whole chapter of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (written c. A.D. 731). To dedicate a whole chapter to her elevated Hild to a similar position that Bede afforded her contemporary Christian holy men. Only the greatest were given such a prominent place in his history: he clearly thought highly of her.
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