📚 Recién comenzado #ElLadrónDeLenguaNegra de #ChristopherBuehlman .
Espero terminarlo antes de que finalice este 2025 🤓
📚 Recién comenzado #ElLadrónDeLenguaNegra de #ChristopherBuehlman .
Espero terminarlo antes de que finalice este 2025 🤓
The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman (2021)
The Blacktongue Thief – Christopher Buehlman (2021) [...]
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I started reading Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman and it's such an amazing book! Never thought I would get through so many pages in a single sitting.
pavisse - an oblong shield used during the mid-14th to early 16th centuries. Often large enough to cover the entire body, it was used by archers, crossbowmen, and other infantry soldiers on the battlefield.
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires. Thomas recounts the battle of Crécy. The mercenary crossbowmen were reluctant to fire uphill into the sun at the defending English.
marchpane - an early kind of marzipan, made of ground almonds, sugar and rosewater, but without the egg of its later version
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires. Dessert arrives in cross-shaped heaps following the armada of meats at the grand feast.
centenar - during the Hundred Years' War, the commander of one hundred infantry
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires. Matthew Blount, leader of an English brigade of longbowmen, orders his men after a skirmish.
spelt - a species of wheat, also known as dinkel wheat or hulled wheat
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires. Crops grow untended in the fields near the small town of Fleur-de-Roche.