![]() ![]() Alfred is a sickly scholar, while Uhtred is an arrogant warrior. The king is a pious Christian, while Uhtred is a pagan. It tells the astonishing and true story of how Alfred, forced to become a fugitive in a few square miles of swampland, fights his enemies against overwhelming odds. Yet fate, as Uhtred learns, has its own imperatives, and when the Vikings attack out of a wintry darkness to shatter the last English kingdom, Uhtred finds himself at Alfred's side.īernard Cornwell's The Pale Horseman, like The Last Kingdom, is rooted in the real history of Anglo-Saxon England. A dispossessed young nobleman, married to a woman who hails from Wessex, Uhtred has little love for either, though for King Alfred he has none at all. ![]() They assemble the Great Army, whose one ambition is to conquer Wessex. The rest have fallen to the Danish Vikings, a story told in The Last Kingdom, the New York Times bestselling novel in which Uhtred's tale began. In the late ninth century, Wessex is the last English kingdom. He has to make a choice: whether to fight for the Vikings, who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who dislikes him. Uhtred is a Saxon, cheated of his inheritance and adrift in a world of fire, sword, and treachery. ![]()
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