"The Last Kingdom" follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a young Saxon who is kidnapped and raised by Vikings before working for Alfred the Great and ultimately seizing control of the lands that once belonged ...
Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...
Leading the West Saxon forces was King Æthelred, and his younger brother, the future Alfred the Great. That year, the Danes ...