Still reading your works–thanks–have finished, too, BLOODFEUD, by Fletcher–Uhtred has etched himself in my heart. Have you come across perhaps in your research oral commands given to medieval horses? My father used whoa, and a clicking on the side of the mouth for “giddy-up,” but in Germany & Slavic countries I understand the command to stop is strangely “brrrrrrr.” I can’t seem to find information for horse commands in Medieval England–just out of interest. Uhtred does not give any oral commands that I recall reading, but you write of no trouble with his having the horse obey him. Thanks again for your well-written, mesmerizing books. I’ve started on the Sharpe series now, and have ordered in hardback Sharpe’s Tiger and Agincourt for my younger son (now married) on his birthday.

Elfreth