![]() Fast forward and the two have formed a close personal bond as kindred spirits and lovers. His fellow captive is a feisty, sharp-tongued girl named Brida, and the orphans are brought up in the Danish camp. That same day he is taken by a Danish warlord, Earl Ragnar. ![]() ![]() Young Uhtred witnesses his father killed and the Saxon army defeated. The story opens as 11-year-old Uhtred, who was born a Saxon in 9th century Northumbria, watches from a cliff top as invading Danish ships move toward his home, not knowing that his future will soon be turned upside-down. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, THE LAST KINGDOM is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home. ![]() What is he - Saxon or Viking? On a quest to claim his birthright, Uhtred treads a dangerous path between both sides if he is to play his part in the birth of a new nation and, ultimately, seek to recapture his ancestral lands. Uhtred, born the son of a Saxon nobleman, is orphaned by the Vikings and then kidnapped and raised as one of their own. Based on "The Saxon Stories" series of books by Bernard Cornwell, THE LAST KINGDOM is set in the year 872, when many of the separate kingdoms of what is now England have fallen to the invading Vikings, the great kingdom of Wessex has been left standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred the Great. ![]()
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