The Sword Song

This is a story from those times when the Danish Vikings called into question the very existence of Britain, when all the English kingdoms were on the brink of destruction. And only King Alfred—England’s only ruler ever named “the Great”—was determined to defend the independence of his native Wessex and, more broadly, the islands themselves.

The novel’s hero, Uhtred, forced by circumstances—kidnapped as an infant by the Danes and raised by them as a Viking who worships the northern gods—grows up and must decide which side to fight for. Whether to defend his true homeland or to side with the invaders. He must make that choice himself, not counting on the fact that everything has already been predetermined by fate.