Death of Kings - Bernard Cornwell The Last Kingdom Series

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nearest to AD 900, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I should spell England as Englaland, and have preferred the modern form Northumbria to Norðhymbralond to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.

Baddan Byrig Badbury Rings, Dorset
Beamfleot Benfleet, Essex
Bebbanburg Bamburgh, Northumberland
Bedanford Bedford, Bedfordshire
Blaneford Blandford Forum, Dorset
Buccingahamm Buckingham, Bucks
Buchestanes Buxton, Derbyshire
Ceaster Chester, Cheshire
Cent County of Kent
Cippanhamm Chippenham, Wiltshire
Cirrenceastre Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Contwaraburg Canterbury, Kent
Cyninges Tun Kingston upon Thames, Greater London
Cracgelad Cricklade, Wiltshire
Cumbraland Cumberland
Cytringan Kettering, Northants
Dumnoc Dunwich, Suffolk
Dunholm Durham, County Durham
Eanulfsbirig St Neot, Cambridgeshire
Eleg Ely, Cambridgeshire
Eoferwic York, Yorkshire (called Jorvik by the Danes)
Exanceaster Exeter, Devon
Fagranforda Fairford, Gloucestershire
Fearnhamme Farnham, Surrey
Fifhidan Fyfield, Wiltshire
Fughelness Foulness Island, Essex
Gegnesburh Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Gleawecestre Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Grantaceaster Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Hothlege, River Hadleigh Ray, Essex
Hrofeceastre Rochester, Kent
Humbre, River River Humber
Huntandon Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Liccelfeld Lichfield, Staffordshire
Lindisfarena Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland
Lundene London
Medwæg, River River Medway, Kent
Natangrafum Notgrove, Gloucestershire
Oxnaforda Oxford, Oxfordshire
Ratumacos Rouen, Normandy, France
Rochecestre Wroxeter, Shropshire
Sarisberie Salisbury, Wiltshire
Sæfern River Severn
Sceaftesburi Shaftesbury, Dorset
Sceobyrig Shoebury, Essex
Scrobbesburh Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Snotengaham Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Sumorsæte Somerset
Temes, River River Thames
Thornsæta Dorset
Tofeceaster Towcester, Northamptonshire
Trente, River River Trent
Turcandene Turkdean, Gloucestershire
Tweoxnam Christchurch, Dorset
Westune Whitchurch, Shropshire
Wiltunscir Wiltshire
Wimburnan Wimborne, Dorset
Wintanceaster Winchester, Hampshire
Wygraceaster Worcester, Worcestershire

       PART ONE

       The Sorceress

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       One

      ‘Every day is ordinary,’ Father Willibald said, ‘until it isn’t.’ He smiled happily, as though he had just said something he thought I would find significant, then looked disappointed when I said nothing. ‘Every day,’ he started again.

      ‘I heard your drivelling,’ I snarled.

      ‘Until it isn’t,’ he finished weakly. I liked Willibald, even if he was a priest. He had been one of my childhood tutors and now I counted him as a friend. He was gentle, earnest, and if the meek ever do inherit the earth then Willibald will be rich beyond measure.

      And every day is ordinary until something changes, and that cold Sunday morning had seemed as ordinary as any until the fools tried to kill me. It was so cold. There had been rain during the week, but on that morning the puddles froze and a hard frost whitened

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