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WAR LORD
Bernard Cornwell
Copyright
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2020
Map © John Gilkes 2020
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Source ISBN: 9780008183950
Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2020 ISBN: 9780008183974
Version: 2020-09-15
Dedication
War Lord
is for Alexander Dreymon
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Place Names
Map
Part One : The Broken Oath
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Part Two : The Devil’s Work
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Part Three : The Slaughter
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Thirteen
Epilogue
Historical Note
Author Note
Keep Reading …
About the Author
Also by Bernard Cornwell
The SHARPE series
About the Publisher
PLACE NAMES
The spelling of place names in Anglo-Saxon England 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 of places mentioned in the book is, like the spellings themselves, capricious.
Bebbanburg
Bamburgh, Northumberland
Brynstæþ
Brimstage, Cheshire
Burgham
Eamont Bridge, Cumbria
Cair Ligualid
Carlisle, Cumbria
Ceaster
Chester, Cheshire
Dacore
Dacre, Cumbria
Dingesmere
Wallasey Pool, Cheshire
Dun Eidyn
Edinburgh, Scotland
Dunholm
Durham, County Durham
Eamotum
River Eamont
Eoferwic
York, Yorkshire
Farnea Islands
Farne Islands, Northumberland
Foirthe
River Forth
Heahburh
Whitley Castle, Cumbria
Hedene
River Eden
Hlymrekr
Limerick, Ireland
Jorvik
Norse name for York
Lauther
River Lowther
Legeceasterscir
Cheshire
Lindcolne
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Lindisfarena
Lindisfarne Island, Northumbria
Lundene
London
Mærse
The Mersey
Mameceaster
Manchester
Mön
Isle of Man
Orkneyjar
Orkney Islands
Rammesburi
Ramsbury, Wiltshire
Ribbel
River Ribble
Scipton
Skipton, Yorkshire
Snæland
Iceland
Snotengaham
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Sumorsæte
Somerset
Strath