"The Golden Warrior" is deliberately written in the style of the medieval saga; can seem a bit alien to the modern reader and take a bit of adapting to.The Golden Warrior by Hope Muntz (about William the Conqueror and Harold). It was written in 1949 and some of the sentence structure and language is a little odd
Currently reading Kate Ellis's 'A Perfect Death", latest in a series of mysteries in which a current murder mystery has links to, and parallels an ancient one. This one has a Cathar connection.