::Peregrine:: by Joan Elizabeth Goodman-Character

In Peregrine, the main character is, of course, Lady Edith Bohemund of Cheswick; or [Lady] Edith, for short. Lady Edith is only 15 years-old, but she is already widowed with a dead husband and child. Though she is quite young, she has a woman’s character due to the fact that she has faced a myriad of things in her life so young. Her marriage to Sir Bohemund changed her. She was always a “wild little thing”, but after her marriage, she becomes more patient. In this novel, Edith goes on a journey to Jerusalem to escape a marriage to Sir Runcival of Surrey, for she did not want to remarry, and she wasn’t very fond of him. Moreover, during her journey to the Holy City, Lady Edith often thought of her baby, and dwelled on the horrors of her babe’s death. Her Later on during the story, she reveals that she truly wanted to be that little girl she was, wild and impatient. Edith is also sympathetic towards others, like Rhiannon.

Another important character in Peregrine is Rhiannon. Rhiannon is a quite, collected, and wise girl. She comes into the story, when she deliberately chooses to come out of the forest when Lady Edith comes by during her journey to the Holy City, and tells Edith, “Help me.” When she first meets Edith, all she reveals of herself, is her name. At the end of the book, however, Rhiannon reveals that she is a Welsh princess whose father was Griffith ap Rees, Prince of Cardigan, and her mother, Gwenllian, daughter of the King of Gwynedd. Her story of her life was a sad one. Both her parents had died by the time Rhiannon was seven. At first, Rhiannon rarely talked, she just watched everybody, but she holds herself up and with the grace of a royal. Her word are also wise, and sometimes ,strange, but true.