The shield ring / Sutcliff, Rosemary

In eleventh-century northern England, Frytha, a young Saxon girl left orphaned and homeless by a Norman raid, finds refuge in the Lake District stonghold of Jarl Buthar, a Norse leader determined to resist the invading Normans at all cost.

A young girl witnesses the waning power of the Norse in their continuing conflict with the Normans in eleventh century England.