After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson ... chose Earl Harold of Wessex as the next king. The Normans took over all of England ...

In AD892, over 300 Viking ships invaded Britain to fight King Alfred of Wessex. No one knows how big the Viking army was but if there were 20 men in each Viking ship, the army of AD892 numbered 6000!

In 991, a Viking force sacked the city of ... Edward represents the last king of the House of Wessex, of which Alfred, Edward, and Aethelstan in The Last Kingdom are all members.

Whatever it is about medieval England that fired up a metalhead from Old Kilpatrick to start writing historical novels, it’s clearly potent ...