How long does it take to read The Shield Ring?
The Shield Ring by Rosemary Sutcliff takes about 4 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Eagle of the Ninth
Previous: Sword Song
About 4 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1956. 225 pages, about 61,875 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A young girl witnesses the waning power of the Norse in their continuing conflict with the Normans in eleventh century England.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, History, Orphans, Vikings, Saxons
