(And Uhtred’s greedy uncle wanted him dead.) Ragnar, the warrior Dane who spared Uhtred’s life, seeing real soldier potential in the boy, taught him the fine points of disemboweling, decapitating, etc., in a blissfully wild childhood on the land the invaders had seized from the very disorganized English. Back in Bebbanburg, his father and grumpy stepmother had been trying to have him educated by Beocca, a too-serious, too-Christian monk, but Uhtred wasn’t interested. Born Osbert, younger son of Uhtred, ealdorman of Bebbanburg, on the coast of Northumbria, robust, war-loving Uhtred got renamed on the death of his older brother, killed by the Danes who, on a later raid, seized the lad and, admiring his spunk, kept him as a sort of pet. Opening yet another series, Cornwell, who turns out about two high-quality historicals a year ( Sharpe’s Escape, 2004, etc.) without breaking a sweat, examines, through the eyes of a reluctant vassal, the career of the only English king to rate a Great. Urn:oclc:678678601 Republisher_date 20120922173612 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120919073118 Scanner dispossessed Northumbrian gets a military education from the Danes before reluctantly signing on to serve the humorless Wessexian king, he who will eventually become Alfred the Great (849–99). OL23286W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.65 Pages 362 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0060887184 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:35:52 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA158001 Boxid_2 CH114901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
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