The Last Kingdom. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2004 book, The Saxon Stories
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The Saxon Stories
Bernard Cornwell, 2004
TV series vs book
Bernard Cornwell, 2015

The year is 866, and the Great Heathen Army’s arrival in Britain is about to redefine the relationship between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. An earl of that name lived and ruled Bebbanburg and Northumbria during the reign of Æthelred II, though about a century after the setting of The Last Kingdom.