When Alfred the Great was stranded in the Somerset marshes it seemed that Saxon Britain was doomed, and that Alfred’s Wessex would be the last Saxon kingdom. Instead Wessex expanded until, ...
The Last Kingdom is a historical fiction series based on Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of novels. The Last Kingdom begins in 866 with the Viking conquest of York, when England is ...
About a decade before Bernard Cornwell began writing his Saxon Stories books, which Netflix would adapt as The Last Kingdom, he wrote The Warlord Chronicles, a three-book seires now more widely ...
The Last Kingdom and its incredible protagonist Uhtred of Bebbanburg introduced 21st century audiences to the work and ...