![]() In truth we were not an army, but a rabble. Of the three hundred and eighteen men I doubted that even a hundred were worth putting in a shield wall. Rebellion, chaos, fear, and betrayal await them in the north, forcing Uhtred to turn once more, reluctantly, to the liege he formerly served in battle and blood: Alfred the Great. There were sixty or seventy priests and monks and I would have exchanged every one of them for more horses or more warriors. Uhtred?s best hope is his sword, Serpent-Breath, for his only allies are Hild, a West Saxon nun fleeing her calling, and Guthred, a slave who believes himself king. ![]() Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King Alfred, he is heading home to rescue his stepsister, a prisoner of Kjartan the Cruel in the formidable Danish stronghold of Dunholm. Bernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series'like Game of Thrones, but real' (The Observer)the basis of the hit Netflix television series The Last Kingdom. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. ![]() The?third 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 television series.The year is 878. ![]() Download Or Read PDF Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3) Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook.
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