So? Six more? Eight more? I just don’t know.' The company that makes Downton Abbey will make the programs, which is wonderful, and I’ll need to keep them supplied with stories (I hope). 'I wish I knew! I don’t know how the chapter I’m writing now will end, let alone the book, and the series? No idea! I suspect there will be a few more I just heard that BBC Television have commissioned a series that will follow Uhtred’s escapades. In the interview, he revealed that there is a plan to adapt the series for television, in answer to a question of how many more books are planned for the series. Thus was born Uhtred, the protagonist of the fictional tales. When he was in his fifties, Cornwell met his birth father, named William Outhred (or Oughtred), and learned the story of his own descent from the Saxons who owned the fortress of Bebbanburg (now Bamburgh Castle). Americans know, they even have a starting date, but the English just seemed to assume that England had always been there, so the idea of writing a series about the creation of England was in my head for a long time.' The historical setting is the big story writing historical fiction needs a little story so the history can be the background. For some reason the history of the Anglo-Saxons isn’t much taught in Britain (where I grew up) and it struck me as weird that the English really had no idea where their country came from. In an interview with Emerson College, Cornwell said: 'Years ago, when I was at university, I discovered Anglo-Saxon poetry and became hooked on that strange and often melancholy world. Cornwell subsequently posted a note on his web site that ' The Warrior Chronicles/ Saxon Stories had been renamed The Last Kingdom series'. A third, fourth and fifth season were produced by Netflix. The first two seasons were made by the BBC. The first ten novels in the series were adapted for five seasons of the television series The Last Kingdom, starring Alexander Dreymon. Uhtred, despite his inclinations otherwise, repeatedly fights and schemes to bring about Alfred's dream over the course of a long life. Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallies his forces and begins the long struggle to fulfill his ambition of uniting all English speakers in one realm. The story begins with the conquest of all but one of the major Saxon kingdoms by the Danes, with Wessex, the last kingdom, nearly overrun. The name of the fictional protagonist comes from the historical Uhtred the Bold Cornwell is a descendant of this family.

He is captured as a child and adopted by a Danish warlord. The protagonist of the series is Uhtred of Bebbanburg, born to a Saxon lord in Northumbria. The Saxon Stories (also known as Saxon Tales/ Saxon Chronicles in the US and The Warrior Chronicles and most recently as The Last Kingdom series) is a historical novel series written by Bernard Cornwell about the birth of England in the ninth and tenth centuries.

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