The Lords of the North

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The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings.
Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian
lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now, as
The Lords of the North begins, he is disgusted by
Alfred's lack of generosity and repelled by the
king's insistent piety. He flees Wessex, going back
north to seek revenge for the killing of his foster
father and to rescue his stepsister, captured in the
same raid. He needs to find his old enemy, Kjartan,
a renegade Danish lord who lurks in the formidable
stronghold of Dunholm.
Uhtred arrives in the north to discover rebellion,
chaos and fear. His only ally is Hild, a West Saxon
nun fleeing her calling, and his best hope is his
sword, with which he has made a formidable
reputation as a warrior. He will need the assistance
of other warriors if he is to attack Dunholm and he
finds Guthred, a slave who believes he is a king.
If Guthred is to rule Northumbria he needs Uhtred
and Ragnar, the Dane who is Uhtred's sworn... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings.
Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian
lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now, as
The Lords of the North begins, he is disgusted by
Alfred's lack of generosity and repelled by the
king's insistent piety. He flees Wessex, going back
north to seek revenge for the killing of his foster
father and to rescue his stepsister, captured in the
same raid. He needs to find his old enemy, Kjartan,
a renegade Danish lord who lurks in the formidable
stronghold of Dunholm.
Uhtred arrives in the north to discover rebellion,
chaos and fear. His only ally is Hild, a West Saxon
nun fleeing her calling, and his best hope is his
sword, with which he has made a formidable
reputation as a warrior. He will need the assistance
of other warriors if he is to attack Dunholm and he
finds Guthred, a slave who believes he is a king.
If Guthred is to rule Northumbria he needs Uhtred
and Ragnar, the Dane who is Uhtred's sworn
brother. Guthred, though, is weak and yields to
treachery. Uhtred ends up on a slave voyage to
Iceland. His rescue comes through an unlikely
alliance of his friends and enemies. In the end it is
Alfred the Great of Wessex who sees profit in
Northumbrian despair and looses Uhtred and
Ragnar onto Dunholm, the invincible fortress on its
great spur of rock in the lawless north.
The Lords of the North, like Bernard Corn well's
two previous novels in this tale of England's
making, is based on real events. It is a powerful
story of betrayal, romance and struggle, set in an
England of turmoil, upheaval and glory. Uhtred,
a Northumbrian raised as a Viking, a man without
lands, a warrior without a country, has become
a splendid, heroic figure. Vissza