A review by jrkrell
The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold

4.0

Fiametta is a strong female character dealing with medieval(?) prejudices. Bujold claims 3 sources for this story. 1) Folktales of heroes who come across unburied bodies, due to their debts, who pay the debts and bury the bodies, then are helped in their future adventures by said ghost. 2) Kobolds, and a self-effacing Swiss miner from a 16th century Latin treatise on mining translated by Hoover. 3) Golden saltcellar, bronze Perseus, mad castellan, wonderful and egotistical Cellini in the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.