Buy Strongbow: The Story of Richard and Aoife by Morgan Llywelyn online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Basically Aoife's father lies to Richard in order to get him to come and help him get his kingdom back. Richard does as he is hired to do, expecting a wife, and a kingdom for his efforts. He finds out that the wife must first accept him--something that stuns him as in Norman culture women are chatel and have no say in who they marry/5(29). A well-treated story of a medieval couple, Aoife (Red Eva) MacMurrough, an Irish princess, and Richard (Strongbow) de Clare, a Norman knight. The characters are real, resurrected by Llywelyn's lively art, and lead lives compatible with the times--sometimes lovely, sometimes violent/5(29).
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This is the story of Aoife, Princess of Leinster and Richard de Clare aka Strongbow who were quite the powerful couple in the twelfth Century. Richard was hired by Aoife's father Dermot Mac Murrough, former King of Leister to seize back his lands that were taken from him by a loyal follower of the High King. Full of battles and warfare, but a story of love, too, between an unlikely pair - wilful and wild Irish princess Aoife, and Strongbow, the greatest of the Norman knights to come to Ireland. A clash of cultures and a vivid story of one of the Greats of Irish history. Historian and novelist Morgan Llywelyn was born in New York City, but after the death of her husband and parents in returned to Ireland to take up citizenship in the land of her grandparents and make her permanent home there. A well-treated story of a medieval couple, Aoife (Red Eva) MacMurrough, an Irish princess, and Richard (Strongbow) de Clare, a Norman knight. The characters are real, resurrected by Llywelyn's lively art, and lead lives compatible with the times--sometimes lovely, sometimes violent.
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