'Before I was in a wheelchair, I used to love going hiking,' says the author, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1993. Now, 'I love making maps.'
Nicola Griffith makes a lot of maps. It’s an interest she discovered out of necessity while envisioning the 7th-century lands in which Hilda of Whitby — the real-life medieval figure at the center of Griffith’s 2013 novel “Hild” and its just-published follow-up, “Menewood” — once roamed. “I love making maps,” the Seattle-based author says with a laugh during a recent video call where one of her maps hangs within view.
And the ones that she has seen, like Whitby Abbey, had changed dramatically by the 20th century. “For one thing, there’s maybe a couple hundred meters of cliff missing now from erosion, so the Abbey would not have been right at the edge of the cliff the way that the much-later ruins are now,” Griffith explains. “There would have been, I think, more trees up there. And the weather would have been slightly different.
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