![]() ![]() 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 fishmail 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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