There really was a man called Uhtred who was Lord of Bebbanburg, but we know almost nothing about him.
The hero of The Last Kingdom is part fictional and part real.
Instead Wessex expanded until, under Alfred’s grandson, the new nation emerged. When Alfred the Great was stranded in the Somerset marshes it seemed that Saxon Britain was doomed, and that Alfred’s Wessex would be the last Saxon kingdom. It is a story that is curiously ignored, almost as if we assume that England was always there, but the making of England is a tale of vast and savage struggle, and at times that struggle looked hopeless. It is a tale of endless war and at the end of it, in the early years of the 10th Century, a new nation is born England. The Last Kingdom is the story of a nation’s making.
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