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Bernard Cornwell mentioned in the historical notes at the end of The Lords of the North, the third novel, that he intended to continue writing The Saxon Stories. On his website, [4] Cornwell stated "I need to finish Uhtred". In an interview, in answer to a question of how many more books are planned for the series, he replied: I wish I knew!
Novels set in 6th-century Anglo-Saxon England (1 P) S. The Saxon Stories (16 P) W. The Warlord Chronicles (4 P) Pages in category "Novels set in Anglo-Saxon England"
The protagonist of the series is Derfel Cadarn (pronounced Derv-el), based on the part-legendary Saint Derfel and on Bedivere. Cornwell's Derfel is a Saxon brought up as a Briton by Merlin, the greatest of all Druids. In the course of the story, he becomes a great warrior and one of Arthur's warlords in his war against the Saxons.
The Burning Land is the fifth historical novel in The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2009. The story is set in the 9th-century Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex, Northumbria and Mercia. The first half of season 3 of the British television series The Last Kingdom is based on this novel.
The novels in The Saxon Stories series by Bernard Cornwell. Pages in category "The Saxon Stories" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Lords of the North is the third historical novel in The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell published in 2006. [1] The story is set in the 9th century Anglo-Saxon kingdoms Wessex and Northumbria. Uhtred wants revenge against his uncle, and falls in love. He fights for both the Danes and for Alfred.
It is a sequel to The Sea of Trolls, second in a series of three (as of 2013) known as the Sea of Trolls series [1] or the Saxon Saga. [2] The title refers to the "silver apples of the moon" associated with the land of faerie in W. B. Yeats' poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus". [3] The book received the Emperor Norton Award (2007).
[1] Meanwhile, Saint Boniface (d. 754) composed a sequence of ten riddles on the virtues and another of ten on the vices. [14] These were "for the moral instruction of an unnamed female correspondent", were influenced greatly by Aldhelm, and contained many references to works of Vergil (the Aeneid, the Georgics, and the Eclogues). [4]