Book Log 2008 #14: Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
The latest in the Saxon Tales series, as the Saxon-raised-Dane Uhtred wavers in his oath to Alfred, King of Wessex, when he is tasked to drive the Danes out of London.
It's a fine story, even without the usual dash of nostalgia that historical fiction gets from setting up in London past (it's too far in the past to really get that). The website notes that this takes place about five years after the last book, which I hadn't really noticed. Given the subplot about Alfred's daughter getting married, I should have twigged on to this, as she wasn't really marrying age in the previous book.
26 March 2008
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