5/13/2023 0 Comments The burning land bookThey are led by Harald’s woman, a vicious but beautiful creature (oh so typical of Cornwell’s writing) called Skade. Uhtred later runs into a band of Harald’s men laying waste to a village in Wessex. Haesten is holding out to see how things develop in Cent, where another Dane, Jarl Harald Bloodhair is causing trouble. He gives over hostages, accepts Christian missionaries into his camp, and later allows his wife and family to be baptised. Uhtred delivers a message from the king to his old enemy Danish Jarl Haesten telling him that they Alfred will pay him a hefty amount of silver if he takes his men and boats away from Wessex. Uhtred is unwilling because he wants to go North and win back Bebbanburg from his uncle Aelfric. Alfred wants him to do so because he knows that he will soon die and Uhtred will be released from the oath he swore to Alfred. The novel opens with Uhtred, military governor of Lundene, refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to Alfred’s son, Edward the Aethling. Now I know Uhtred is supposed to be blonde, I don’t think I’ll ever go back to the TV show. The first half of Season 3 of the TV series The Last Kingdom is based on this novel, but I stopped watching the show at the end of Season 2 and so can’t comment on how well it was adapted for screen. The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell catches up with Uhtred five years after the events of Sword Song and he is now Alfred’s main man when it comes to commanding men against the Danes for the kingdom of Wessex.
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