Serie Sajones, Vikingos Y Normandos
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The warrior Uhtred, now married with two children and a landowner, seems destined to enjoy a peace similar to that in England, where the Danish kingdom of the north and the Sanon kingdom of Wessex enter a new era of peace. But the Vikings are still lurking in Londinium, ready to conquer Wessex, for which they need the help of their old comrade Uhtred. For his part, King Alfred the Great trusts that he will be the one to lead an operation aimed at expelling the Vikings, which will lead Uhtred to face his ambivalent identity again, and to weigh his Viking origin and loyalty. to their king; in any case, his warrior ardor will outweigh his familiar placidity.
Uthred, a young Anglo-Saxon of aristocratic descent, is now torn between fighting alongside those who have educated him, the Vikings or placing himself under the command of Alfred the Great, from whom he is separated by religious beliefs. The decision Uthred finally makes will lead him to become a spy, constantly putting his life in danger.
The young Uhtred, having helped Alfred the Great to turn Wessex into an independent Saxon kingdom, returns to the north with the purpose of finding his stepsister. But along the way he will find a land engulfed in chaos and war, and a Guthred who has gone from being a slave to a pretender to the throne. The gentlemen of the North takes the approach of the series a step further, dedicated above all to the presentation of settings, characters and political conflicts, and in this novel the ability to narrate military actions and describe their consequences, one of the signs of identity by Cornwell, shines higher, in perfectly recreated war-torn settings.
Against his will, Uhtred, the formidable warrior, is ordered to initiate conversations with the Vikings to seal the peace, but ends up discovering that they have laid a trap for him. The men who surround the king do not trust him, the Danes dream of killing him and his only trusted person, Etelfleda, Alfredo's daughter, is confined in a convent. Uhtred himself, confined to a miserable estate in Mercia, observes how the clerics closest to the king advise him a policy of pacification and conversion while, on the borders of the kingdom, the enemies of Wessex grow stronger every day. The Danes speak of peace, but they are preparing for war. They dream of seizing Wessex, the most prosperous of the Saxon territories. Rumors are running that Alfred the Great, the man who has ruled the kingdom's destiny for nearly thirty years, is dying, and there is no shortage of bad omens. Muerte de Reyes is a splendid novel about how a dream was forged, England, and how it was about to be ruined.
The last years of the ninth century were a dangerous time for England. The health of Alfred of Wessex, his successor, an inexperienced young man, and the Vikings, who have so often seen their aspirations to conquer Wessex frustrated, believe that the time has come to strike. Utred, Alfred's warlord, despite himself, has a trap for the enemy and, at Farnham, inflicts one of the worst defeats on the Vikings. But after the victory, Uhtred will have to face both a family tragedy and the attacks of Alfredo's henchmen, suspicious of his popularity and the monarch's treatment of a pagan. Uthred breaks up with Alfredo, breaks his oath of allegiance and returns the norme, once again a Viking.