The Last Kingdom · Book 7
The Pagan Lord
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780007331925
- Type
- novel
About this book
The seventh book in The Last Kingdom, The Pagan Lord (2013, 320 pages) sits between Death of Kings and The Empty Throne, and marks the series moving past Alfred's own reign into the fight carried on by his children and grandchildren. Uhtred's pursuit of his ancestral fortress at Bebbanburg continues to drive the story.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
The Pagan Lord is book 7 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows Death of Kings. It is followed by The Empty Throne. 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…
Editions
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