Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages
Ed West, "Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages "
English | ISBN: 1510719857 | 2017| 144 pages | AZW3 | 345 KB
English | ISBN: 1510719857 | 2017| 144 pages | AZW3 | 345 KB
A witty and concise look at the beginnings of English history, when the nation consolidated after clashes between the Saxons and invading Vikings.
In 871, three of England's four kingdoms were overrun by Vikings, the ruthless, all-conquering Scandinavian raiders who terrorized early medieval Europe. With the Norsemen murdering one king with arrows and torturing another to death by ripping out his lungs, the prospects that faced the kingdom of Wessex were bleak. Worse still, the Saxons were now led by a young man barely out of his teens who was more interested in God than fighting. Yet within a decade Alfredthe only English king known as the Greathad driven the Vikings out of half of England, and his children and grandchildren would unite the country a few years later. This period, popular with fans of television shows such as
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