title: The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
author:  Rosemary Sutcliff 
description: Rosemary Sutcliff wrote more than 40 historical novels for young adults-including <i>The Eagle of the Ninth</i>, <i>The Silver Branch</i>, <i>The Lantern Bearers</i>, <i>The Sword and the Circle</i>, and <i>Black Ships Before Troy</i>-five adult novels, and several books of nonfiction.
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  # Northland Heroes
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Florence Holbrook
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
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  * [PREFACE](nother_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [THE STORY OF FRITHIOF](nother_split_2.html#1_1)
  
  
    * [In Hilding's Garden](nother_split_3.html#1_1_1)
  
  
  * [King Bele and Thorsten](nother_split_4.html#1_1_2)
  
  
  * [Framness](nother_split_5.html#1_1_3)
  
  
  * [King Helge and Frithiof](nother_split_6.html#1_1_4)
  
  
  * [In the Country of King Ring](nother_split_7.html#1_1_5)
  
  
  * [Frithiof's Answer](nother_split_8.html#1_1_6)
  
  
  * [In Balder's Grove](nother_split_9.html#1_1_7)
  
  
  * [The Parting](nother_split_10.html#1_1_8)
  
  
  * [Frithiof and Angantyr](nother_split_11.html#1_1_9)
  
  
  * [The Return](nother_split_12.html#1_1_10)
  
  
  * [Balder's Funeral Pile](nother_split_13.html#1_1_11)
  
  
  * [On the Sea](nother_split_14.html#1_1_12)
  
  
  * [The Viking's Code](nother_split_15.html#1_1_13)
  
  
  * [Frithiof's Return](nother_split_16.html#1_1_1