Use ClickUp on mobile, desktop & voice assistants, or add as a Chrome extension or email. Marriage ties him further to the West Saxon cause, but when his wife and child vanish in the chaos of a Danish invasion, Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea, and there, in the horror of a shield-wall, he discovers his true allegiance. Download ClickUp on any device and access your work from anywhere. Explore BibleProjects extensive library of videos to confidently understand books of the Bible, key themes, important words, and more. That war, with its massacres, defeats and betrayals, is the background to Uhtred’s childhood, a childhood which leaves him uncertain of his loyalties, but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfred’s kingdom. Yet Uhtred’s fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia.
I was raised among men, I was free, I ran wild, was encumbered by no laws, was troubled by no priests and was encouraged to violence.’ Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. The Last Kingdom is based on Bernard Cornwell’s 13-book Saxon Stories series of historical novels, whereas Kingdom is adapted from a webcomic created by Kingdom writer Kim Eun-hee. ‘I had been given a perfect childhood, perfect, at least, to the ideas of a boy. Listen to audiobook sample or Register on Audible to download audio books Download This Audiobook FREE Today As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying.
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