If you're thinking that Uhtred is looking good for a 53-year-old in the latest season of The Last Kingdom, you're not wrong! It'll be interesting to see if future seasons age him up more noticeably. It is assumed that Book 13 (the final book) takes place at this time. Book 8 and the second half of Season 4 take place. 911: Aethelred dies, succession crisis in Mercia.Book 7 and the first half of Season 4 take place. Book 6 and the second half of Season 3 conclude. Book 6 and the second half of Season 3 begin. 892-893: Book 5 and the first half of Season 3 take place.

Book 4 and the second half of Season 2 take place. 881: Book 3 and the first half of Season 2 take place.

Book 2 and the second half of Season 1 take place. Book 1 and the first half of Season 1 take place. Uhtred and his adopted sister Brida escape to Wessex.

871: Alfred becomes King of Wessex after the death of his brother.

Uhtred is captured by Ragnar of the Danes.

858 AD: Uhtred is born in Bebbanburg, Northumbria.

But, whilst Uhtred fights for Alfred in return for a home and silver, he does not share his vision or his God, and the tensions between them unfold even as the wars to determine the fate of England rage. It seems that God is smiling on Alfred when he delivers to him a ferocious soldier and canny warleader named Uhtred, a Saxon child raised by the Danes and familiar with both cultures and their ways of war. He has a name for this vision, 'England,' but needs warriors to bring it to fruition. Alfred has a vision of the seven kingdoms united as one, under one ruler and the One True God. The one man who may be able to stem the tide is the newly-crowned King of Wessex, Alfred. The British kingdoms are fighting back piecemeal, but are vulnerable to being attacked and destroyed in isolation. The Danes had originally come as raiders from across the North Sea, but by the time of the series they have established colonies throughout eastern Britain, using them as springboards to further invasions. Both the Last Kingom novels (by Bernard Cornwell) and the TV series are set in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, when the island of Britain is contested between seven feuding Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, Essex, East Anglia, Kent and Sussex) and the invading Danes.

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