![]() ![]() The cloak is mostly sky blue and held together at the breast by a great, early medieval equal-armed cross brooch of gold and garnet inlay. ![]() She wears what appears to be fishscale armour beneath a richly textured but torn and worn cloak. Her expression, partially obscured by windblown hair-pale chestnut with a slight wave-is clear and farseeing: this is a woman who makes decisions that decide lives. She looks directly at the observer with blue-green eyes filled with a weight of experience beyond her years. ![]() In the centre of the image, and taking up more than half of the total image area, is Hild. The pale blue banner in the foreground shows a stylised boar with garnet eyes. Behind Hild to the right, against a sky full of dark cloud and smoke, the arrows fall towards a host of spears and banners. Below the arrows and crows a mounted warrior charges from left to right, shield glinting silver, sword raised, face hidden behind a helmet. Behind her in the upper left, the top corner is golden, with white-hot tipped yellow arrows arcing overhead against what might be dark mountains or forbidding trees. ![]() The image is of a young woman-Hild, the protagonist of the novel-standing tall against an ominous backdrop of medieval warfare. Image description: Richly coloured cover of a novel, Menewood, by Nicola Griffith, painted predominatly in blue, gold, black, and red. Cover of Menewood: A Novel by Nicola Griffith (MCDxFSG 3 October, 2023). ![]()
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