But when Iseult, a powerful sorceress, enters Uhtred's life, he is forced to consider feelings he's never confronted before-and Uhtred discovers, in his moment of greatest peril, a new-found loyalty and love for his native country and ruler. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. Uhtred has always been a Dane at heart, and has always believed that given the chance, he would fight for the men who raised him and taught him the Viking ways. The Pale Horse So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. The Danish Vikings quickly invade and occupy three of England's four kingdoms-and all that remains of the once proud country is a small piece of marshland, where Alfred and his family live with a few soldiers and retainers, including Uhtred, the dispossessed English nobleman who was raised by the Danes. 115 of 120 found this interesting Share this Many of the small buildings shown in the series are built of thatch and stone. It has been used in many forms, from irises to ears of corn which symbolize fertility and are most definitely used in the Danish Eddas and herald the arrival of Beowulf. , The Danes had been defeated at Cynuit, but the triumph of the English is not fated to last long. The symbol is an ancient one, not exclusive to France. This is the exciting-yet little known-story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms. The second installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (
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