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The Last Kingdom volume 2
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HarperCollins
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It is the lowest time for the Saxons. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings who now occupy most of England, Alfred and his very small group of surviving followers retreat to the trackless marshlands of Somerset. There, forced to move restlessly to escape betrayal or detection, using the marsh mists for cover, they travel by small boats from one island refuge to another, hoping that they can regroup and find some more strength and support. Only Uhtred...
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The Last Kingdom volume 3
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The third instalment in Bernard Cornwell?s King Alfred series, follows on from the outstanding previous novels The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman. The year is 878 and the Vikings have been thrown out of Wessex. Uhtred, fresh from fighting for Alfred in the battle to free Wessex, travels north to seek revenge for his father's death, killed in a bloody raid by Uhtred's old enemy, renegade Danish lord, Kjartan. While Kjartan lurks in his formidable...
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In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity? First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred, his unwilling warlord, who leads Harald into a trap and, at Farnham in Surrey, inflicts...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2014
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THE LAST KINGDOM, THE PALE HORSEMAN, THE LORDS OF THE NORTH, SWORD SONG, THE BURNING LAND, DEATH OF KINGS. Uhtred, born into Saxon aristocracy in ninth-century Northumbria is orphaned at ten. He is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The Warrior Chronicles is an epic series from the master...
8) The Vikings
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Bookmart
Pub. Date
1999
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The Vikings takes you into the lives of ordinary people of that time and introduces you to their myths and mythological beings. Jewellery and artefacts in gold, silver, bronze and stone are presented in colour illustrations.
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015
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The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of medieval Europe. From their chill northern fastness, Norse warriors, explorers and merchants raided, traded, and settled across wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic from the late 8th to the mid-11th century. 'The Viking Chronicles' narrates their story region by region, focusing on places where key events were played out.
10) Vikings
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2012
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Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? And just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1000 years ago?
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2010
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For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe for the next 300 years. This is Robert Ferguson's account of those tumultuous days.
17) The Vikings
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The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both mythologically and in the impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnusson's indispensable study of this great people presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a nation who, in modern eyes, would seem to embody striking contradictions.
18) The Vikings
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Franklin Watts
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Sally Hewitt describes the world of the Vikings through a combination of information and step-by-step activities.