Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracyof ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he iscaptured 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 kingdomto survive the Danish assault.The struggle between the English and the Danesand the strife between Christianity and paganism is thebackground to Uhtred"s growing up. Marriage tieshim to the Saxon cause but when his wife and child vanishin the chaos of the Danish invasion, he is driven to facethe greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle besidethe sea. There, he discovers his true allegiance.
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