The Last Kingdom · Book 4
Sword Song
- Published
- 1 September 2007
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780008146542
- Type
- novel
About this book
The fourth book in The Last Kingdom, Sword Song (2007, 384 pages) sits between The Lords of the North and The Burning Land, continuing Uhtred's fight through Alfred the Great's fifty-year struggle to hold England's Saxon kingdoms against the Danes. The huge, unglamorous shield-wall violence that defines Cornwell's Sharpe novels carries straight through to this instalment.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
Sword Song is book 4 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows The Lords of the North. It is followed by The Burning Land. See the full The Last Kingdom reading order.
The Last Kingdom (published in the UK as The Saxon Stories, then The Warrior Chronicles) is Bernard Cornwell's account of the making of England, narrated by Uhtred of Bebbanburg — a Northumbrian nobleman's son captured and raised by Vikings as a boy, who grows up caught between two loyalties: the Danes who taught him to fight and love, and the Saxon kingdoms of his birth. It opens in 866, as Danish armies are overrunning England one kingdom at a time, and follows the fifty-year fight to stop them, centred on…
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