The big flaw is that this book almost certainly influenced Braveheart, with its woaded warrior-chiefs rallying to the cry of "Freedom" - yet Gedge, for all her focus on this, misses the hypocrisy that these are the same people happy to keep slaves themselves. However, Gedge does a great job of entwining many threads of myth together into a coherent story that conveys every sense of containing some truth. It's a little slow to get started, but in the end it's a brilliantly-written and researched historical novel about the period, and really gives a great perspective of Roman occupation.įrom an historical perspective, it is romanticised - the only legend missing from the story is that Caradoc's son, Lyn, become a Pope in Rome. We also follow Boudicca and other figures as the story develops. It mainly follows the fortunes - and misfortunes - of Caradoc (aka, Caractacus) who grows from being a wild youth happy to raid his neighbours, to being weighed down with the responsibility of leading an uprising against Roman occupation. The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge is a fantastic story about Iron-Age Britain just before, during, and after the Roman invasion under Claudius.
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