Sword Song
β¦ LIBER β¦
Sword Song
β Scribed by Bernard Cornwell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lordβwarrior by instinct, Viking by natureβhas finally settled down. He has land, a wife, and two children, and a duty given to him by King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But then trouble stirs: a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have arrived to occupy the decayed Roman city of London. Their dream is to conquer Wessex, and to do it they need Uhtred's help.
Alfred has other ideas. He wants Uhtred to expel the Viking raiders from London. Uhtred must weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles. And other storm clouds are gathering: ΓtheleflaedβAlfred's daughterβis newly married, but by a cruel twist of fate, her very existence now threatens Alfred's kingdom. It is Uhtredβhalf Saxon, half Daneβwhose...
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