O’Brien, Harriet.
London : Bloomsbury, 2005.
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Notes:

• Maps on endpapers.
• Normandy — England — Murder and massacre — Revenge — Defeat — Captive bride — Partner — Saints and sinners — Image and empire — Letters — Fall and rise — The book — Disgrace.
• Presents the life of the eleventh-century English queen, Emma, who was the mother of two kings and who ruled when England was threatened by a power struggle between Saxons, Normans, and invading Vikings.

Subjects:

• Emma Queen, consort of Canute I, King of England, d. 1052.
• Queens — Great Britain — Biography.
• Normans — Great Britain — Biography.
• Vikings — England.
• Great Britain — History — Ethelred II, 979-1016 — Biography.
• Great Britain — History — Canute, 1017-1035 — Biography.

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