Octavia Randolph · 2014 · sea

Ceridwen and Sidroc build a life on Gotland: a hall on the cliff above a trading town, the brewster Rannveig and her deaf son Tindr for friends, and a shipment of furs and amber and goshawks planned for next year's sailing season. Randolph's map for Book Four marks a single place, the trading town on Gotland's east coast. The line drawn here is the one that comes for them - the whole sea road out of Wessex, round the Skaw and through the Danish islands, carrying Godwin of Kilton, who has never been able to let Ceridwen go.

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   Kilton

   The hall on the Wessex cliff that Ceridwen left. The Saxon stranger they rescued knows their names and where they came from, and word travels: she is alive, on an island in the Baltic. Godwin fits out a ship and takes the boys, Ceric and Hrald, aboard.

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   The Trading Town

   Gotland's east coast, where ships are drawn up on the shingle: Rannveig's brew-house, and her son Tindr, deaf since a childhood fever, the best hunter on the island, who has made his own sign for everyone he knows - keys for his mother, a scar for Sidroc, bright hair for Ceridwen.

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   Tyrsborg

   The hall Sidroc and Ceridwen raise on the rauk-strewn cliff at Folhammar above the town, with runes cut over the door and over their bed. Here the Circle closes: Godwin finds them at last, and Sidroc kills him - the one mistake that will shadow the whole rest of the saga.