The Pagan Lord
The seventh novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.BBC2’s major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series.Uhtred – sword of the Saxons, bane of the Vikings – has been declared outcast.Peace in Britain has given Uhtred time to cause trouble – for himself. Branded a pagan abomination by the church, he sails north. For, despite suspecting that Viking leader Cnut Longsword will attack the Saxons again, Uhtred is heading for Bebbanburg, fearing that if he does not act now he will never reclaim his stolen birthright.Yet Uhtred’s fate is bound to the Saxons. To Aethelflaed, bright lady of Mercia and to a dead king’s dream of England. For great battles must still be fought – and no man is better at that than Uhtred.Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s mind is as sharp as his sword. A thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and those he has sworn to serve.
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THE PAGAN LORD
BERNARD CORNWELL
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2013
Maps © John Gilkes 2013
Family tree © Colin Hall 2009
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Cover illustration © Lee Gibbons/Tin Moon - www.leegibbons.co.uk
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Source ISBN: 9780007331925
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Version: 2017-05-06
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 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.
| Ãscâs Hill | Ashdown, Berkshire |
| Afen | River Avon, Wiltshire |
| Beamfleot | Benfleet, Essex |
| Bearddan Igge | Bardney, Lincolnshire |
| Bebbanburg | Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland |
| Bedehal | Beadnell, Northumberland |
| Beorgford | Burford, Oxfordshire |
| Botulfstan | Boston, Lincolnshire |
| Buchestanes | Buxton, Derbyshire |
| Ceaster | Chester, Cheshire |
| Ceodre | Cheddar, Somerset |
| Cesterfelda | Chesterfield, Derbyshire |
| Cirrenceastre | Cirencester, Gloucestershire |
| Coddeswold Hills | The Cotswolds, Gloucestershire |
| Cornwalum | Cornwall |
| Cumbraland | Cumbria |
| Dunholm | Durham, County Durham |
| Dyflin | Dublin, Eire |
| Eoferwic | York, Yorkshire |
| Ethandun | Edington, Wiltshire |
| Exanceaster | Exeter, Devon |
| Fagranforda | Fairford, Gloucestershire |
| Farnea Islands | Farne Islands, Northumberland |
| Flaneburg | Flamborough, Yorkshire |
| Foirthe | River Forth, Scotland |
| The Gewæsc | The Wash |
| Gleawecestre | Gloucester, Gloucestershire |
| Grimesbi | Grimsby, Lincolnshire |
| Haithabu | Hedeby, Denmark |
| Humbre | River Humber |
| Liccelfeld | Lichfield, Staffordshire |
