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Description
Uhtred is a Saxon, adrift in a world of fire, sword and treachery. He has to make a choice -- fight for the Vikings who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex who dislikes him. Wessex, in the late 9th Century, was the last English kingdom. All the rest had fallen to the Danish... read more
First Sentence
These days I look at twenty-year-olds and think they are pathetically young, scarcely weaned from their mothers' tits, but when I was twenty I considered myself a full-grown man.
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Series
This is book 2 in the The Saxon Stories series.
Authors & Contributors
- Bernard Cornwell (Author)
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