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      WAR OF THE WOLF

      BERNARD CORNWELL

       Copyright

      HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2018

      Map © John Gilkes 2018

      Plan of the Roman fort adapted from a drawing by Thomas Sopwith

      Jacket design © HarperColl‌insPublishers Ltd 2018

      Jacket photography © CollaborationJS

      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008183837

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2018 ISBN: 9780008183851

      Version 2018-08-02

       Dedication

       War of the Wolf

      is dedicated to the memory of

      Toby Eady,

      my agent and dear friend.

      1941–2017

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Map

       Place Names

       Part One: The Wild Lands

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

      

       Chapter Four

      

       Chapter Five

      

       Part Two: Eostre’s Feast

      

       Chapter Six

      

       Chapter Seven

      

       Chapter Eight

      

       Part Three: Fortress of the Eagles

      

       Chapter Nine

      

       Chapter Ten

      

       Chapter Eleven

      

       Chapter Twelve

      

       Historical Note

      

       About the Author

      

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

      

       About the Publisher

       PLACE NAMES

      The spelling of place names in ninth- and tenth-century Britain was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whichever spelling is cited in either the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign, AD 871–899, 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 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.

       Bebbanburg — Bamburgh, Northumberland

       Berewic

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