Death of Kings

Death of Kings
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The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a nation.Alfred, the great king, is said to be dying. Rivals for his succession are poised to tear the kingdom apart. The country Alfred has worked thirty years to build is about to disintegrate.Uhtred, the King’s warrior, Viking born but Saxon bred, wants more than anything else to go and fight to reclaim his stolen Northumbrian inheritance. But he knows that if he deserts the King’s cause, Alfred’s dream – and indeed the very future of the English nation – will very likely vanish.Death of Kings is an outstanding novel by a master storyteller of how England was made – and very nearly lost.

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DEATH OF KINGS


BERNARD CORNWELL


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First published in Great Britain by

HarperCollinsPublishers 2011

Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2011

Map © John Gilkes 2011

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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Source ISBN: 9780007331802

Ebook Edition © September 2011 ISBN: 9780007331826

Version: 2017-05-05

DEATH OF KINGS

is for Anne LeClaire,

Novelist and Friend,

who supplied the first line.


The spelling of place names in Anglo-Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whichever spelling is cited in either the Oxford or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest to AD 900, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I should spell England as Englaland, and have preferred the modern form Northumbria to Norðhymbralond to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.

Baddan Byrig Badbury Rings, Dorset
Beamfleot Benfleet, Essex
Bebbanburg Bamburgh, Northumberland
Bedanford Bedford, Bedfordshire
Blaneford Blandford Forum, Dorset
Buccingahamm Buckingham, Bucks
Buchestanes Buxton, Derbyshire
Ceaster Chester, Cheshire
Cent County of Kent
Cippanhamm Chippenham, Wiltshire
Cirrenceastre Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Contwaraburg Canterbury, Kent
Cyninges Tun Kingston upon Thames, Greater London
Cracgelad Cricklade, Wiltshire
Cumbraland Cumberland
Cytringan Kettering, Northants
Dumnoc Dunwich, Suffolk
Dunholm Durham, County Durham
Eanulfsbirig St Neot, Cambridgeshire
Eleg Ely, Cambridgeshire
Eoferwic York, Yorkshire (called Jorvik by the Danes)
Exanceaster Exeter, Devon
Fagranforda Fairford, Gloucestershire
Fearnhamme Farnham, Surrey
Fifhidan Fyfield, Wiltshire
Fughelness Foulness Island, Essex
Gegnesburh Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Gleawecestre Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Grantaceaster Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Hothlege, River Hadleigh Ray, Essex
Hrofeceastre Rochester, Kent
Humbre, River River Humber
Huntandon Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire


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