Bernard Cornwell · 2004 · overland

Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories, begun in 2004. Uhtred, a Northumbrian nobleman's son captured and raised by the Danes, comes of age as the Viking Great Army overruns the kingdoms of England. Torn between the people who raised him and the Saxon cause of Alfred the Great, he fights the length of the land - from his stolen fortress at Bebbanburg to York, Wessex and London - in the forging of England.

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   Bebbanburg

   The Northumbrian coastal fortress (Bamburgh) that is Uhtred's birthright, stolen from him as a boy - the home he spends a lifetime and many battles trying to reclaim.

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   Eoferwic

   Viking-held York, where the young Uhtred, captured and raised among the Danes, comes of age as the Great Heathen Army sweeps away the old Saxon kingdoms one by one.

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   Wessex

   The last unconquered English kingdom, where the pious King Alfred draws the reluctant, pagan-raised Uhtred into the desperate fight to hold the Danes at bay.

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   London

   The old Roman city Uhtred helps wrest from the Danes for Alfred - a strategic prize in the long war that will one day unite the Saxon kingdoms into England.