Flight of the Heron read-along: Part I chapters 5-6

[regshoe]

What is right and what is wrang, a short sword and a lang, a weak arm and a strang for to draw...

Welcome back to the read-along! This week's chapters are getting a bit more serious, historically and for our characters...

Next week we'll read the first two chapters of Part II.

Comments

[owl]

No, because it's long enough in the past that it feels distant. Also TFotH is so well researched and has sympathetic characters on both sides, so there's nothing irritatingly wrong with the source material.

[luzula]

Ah, I see! I have occasionally felt weird about seeing modern-day RPF about Swedish people--maybe because it's so uncommon, and felt surprising and close to home. Otherwise, there's not really a lot of fic set Sweden that I've come across.

[regshoe]

One of my other main fandoms has some important parts set near where I grew up, and I find both the canon portrayal and other fans' interest in the place charming—although this is also both a long time in the past and well-researched! Not sure how I'd feel about modern-day fiction set somewhere I knew, although I don't read much modern stuff to begin with, that might feel slightly weird in itself.