The Last Kingdom Series Books 4-6: Sword Song, The Burning Land, Death of Kings
Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.This is The Last Kingdom Series books 4-6.Five years on since The Lords of the North and Sword Song tells how Alfred’s forces evict the Danes from London. Wessex, Alfred’s kingdom, has survived the great Viking assaults and now, with Uhtred as a leader, the West Saxon forces begin the campaigns of conquest that will end with a new kingdom called England.The Burning Land takes us to the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity… First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred, his unwilling warlord, whom inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings.Death of Kings continues the story of Uhtred, this time through the tumultous years which followed the death of Alfred the Great as two men struggle to inherit the crown of Wessex. Uhtred has to contend with betrayal, treachery and the largest army the Danes have yet assembled to conquer Wessex . . . all brought to a climax in a winter battle fought in the fens of East Anglia.
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THE LAST KINGDOM SERIES 4-6
BERNARD CORNWELL
These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the authorâs imagination.
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Sword Song first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
The Burning Land first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2009
Death of Kings first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2011
Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2007, 2009, 2011
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SWORD SONG
BERNARD CORNWELL
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 authorâs imagination.
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd.
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2007
Map © John Gilkes 2007
Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks
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CONTENTS
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 Dictionary of English Place Names or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfredâs reign, AD 871â899, 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.
| Ãscengum | Eashing, Surrey |
| Arwan | River Orwell, Suffolk |
| Beamfleot | Benfleet, Essex |
| Bebbanburg | Bamburgh, Northumberland |
| Berrocscire | Berkshire |
| Cair Ligualid | Carlisle, Cumbria |
| Caninga |
