![]() This thrilling adventure-based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell’s ancestors-depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea. Lost Found and Told is a collection of seven original short stories written by Fiona Ellis, set in the border county of Northumberland in North East England. Read the BIGGEST collection of free fairy tales, bedtime stories, nursery rhymes, poems for kids, and short stories for kids. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. Sight to Sound - Tales of the Kingdom - Episode 1: The Enchanted City IrishPixie2342 2. But the king refused, saying that the kingdom must go to the oldest son, for it belonged by right to him. He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sides. Now I ask you to give the kingdom to Sun Prince. I want the audio book to listen to as I commute to work Though the books content is extremely interesting and lively, the narrator (who is also the author) is. ![]() The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfred’s kingdom and the last territory in English hands) Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. This is the exciting-yet little known-story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms. The first installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” ( The Observer, London)-the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series.
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