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Historical person
988–1016
Edmund Ironside was an English king who resisted the Danish invasion led by Cnut. He fought a rapid series of campaigns in 1016, including the battle of Assandun, before agreeing to divide the kingdom and dying soon afterwards.
In Cecelia Holland’s Kings of the North, the struggle for England develops through Sweyn’s conquest, Æthelred’s return and the war between Edmund Ironside and Cnut. In Griff Hosker’s Danish Sword, King Æthelred was the worst King of England but, in his second son, Edmund Ironside, was a king in the mould of King Alfred. Other novels featuring Edmund Ironside include Griff Hosker’s The Dragon Sword, Griff Hosker’s Blood Sword, Griff Hosker’s Oathsword, and Griff Hosker’s The Sword of Cnut.
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Series
The Danelaw Saga follows Sven Saxon Sword through the late Anglo-Saxon world as Danish pressure, weak kingship and the rise of Cnut transform England. The sequence is set around the final decades before the Danish conquest, where local war leaders, oath-bound households and shifting loyalties exist between Anglo-Saxon…
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The six-volume Corban Loosestrife saga begins in tenth-century Ireland when a Viking raid destroys Corban’s family and carries away his twin sister, Mav. His pursuit takes him through Dublin, Jórvík and Denmark before the family attempts a new life across the Atlantic. The later volumes shift much of…
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