By Bernard Cornwell
This is often the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of britain within the ninth and tenth centuries, the years within which King Alfred the good, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied 3 of England’s 4 kingdoms.
At the top of The final Kingdom, the Danes have been defeated at Cynuit, however the triumph of the English isn't fated to final lengthy. The Danish Vikings speedy invade and occupy 3 of England’s 4 kingdoms—and all that is still of the as soon as proud kingdom is a small piece of marshland, the place Alfred and his family members dwell with a couple of infantrymen and retainers, together with Uhtred, the dispossessed English nobleman who used to be raised via the Danes. Uhtred has consistently been a Dane at center, and has constantly believed that given the opportunity, he could struggle for the lads who raised him and taught him the Viking methods. but if Iseult, a strong sorceress, enters Uhtred’s existence, he's compelled to contemplate emotions he’s by no means faced before—and Uhtred discovers, in his second of maximum peril, a new-found loyalty and love for his local state and ruler.
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We’d have to stow enough food to last the two of us for up to five months. It would barely fit in the boat. We arrived at the wholesale supermarket Makro armed with a shopping list, or perhaps more accurately a shopping book. After mulling over our nutritional requirements, we’d done our best to itemize what would be required to get us across the ocean in good health. For breakfast we would rotate among four meals: rice pudding, tapioca pudding, cream of wheat, and oatmeal. Lunches would be dried bread with peanut butter, tuna, preserved meat, or cheese (while it lasted).
The Tagus boasted currents so strong that they changed the geography of the river to form a partially inverted delta. The raised triangle of sediment that usually collects at a river’s mouth was absent. Now the incoming current—intensified by strong tides that accompanied the nearly full moon—was still close to its peak power; it would be impossible to row against. Within a few hours, however, this great force would work in our favour. After storing the last of the food, repacking gear to make it fit in the cramped compartments, and filling water containers, we were ready to go.
General delivery at the post office wouldn’t work because many items were being shipped by courier. The Canadian Embassy in Lisbon flatly refused to accept anything on our behalf. Eventually, we found a hotel that would accept our packages and, after a longer search, we found Mario Almeida, a friend of a friend who lives in Lisbon, who would do the same. “You must come to the airport to pick them up,” the shipping clerk said when the carbon-fibre oars donated to us by the Australian company Croker Oars arrived.