Devonshire
Domwaraceaster
Dorchester, Dorset
Dreyndynas
'Fort of Thorns', fictional,
Dunholm
Durham, County Durham
Dyfed
South-West Wales, mostly now Pembrokeshire
Dyflin
Dublin, Eire
Eoferwic
York (also the Danish Jorvic, pronounced Yorvik)
Ethandun
Edington, Wiltshire
Exanceaster
Exeter, Devon
Exanmynster
Exminster, Devon
Gewaesc
The Wash
Gifle
Yeovil, Somerset
Gleawecestre
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Hamptonscir
Hampshire
Hamtun
Southampton, Hampshire
Lindisfarena
Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland
Lundene
London
Lundi
Lundy Island, Devon
Maerlebeorg
Marlborough, Wiltshire
Ocmundtun
Okehampton, Devon
Palfleot
Pawlett, Somerset
Pedredan
River Parrett
Penwith
Land's End, Cornwall
Readingum
Reading, Berkshire
Saefern
River Severn
Sceapig
Isle of Sheppey, Kent
Scireburnan
Sherborne, Dorset
Sillans
The Scilly Isles
Soppan Byrg
Chipping Sudbury, Gloucester
Sumorsaete
Somerset
Suth Seaxa
Sussex (South Saxons)
Tamur
River Tamar
Temes
River Thames
Thon
River Tone, Somerset
Thornsaeta
Dorset
Uisc
River Exe
Werham
Wareham, Dorset
Wilig
River Wylye
Wiltunscir
Wiltshire
Wimburnan
Wimborne Minster, Dorset
Wintanceaster
Winchester, Hampshire
PART ONE
Viking
One
These days I look at twenty-year-olds and think they are pathetically young, scarcely weaned from their mothers' tits, but when I was twenty I considered myself a full-grown man. I had fathered a child, fought in the shield wall, and was loath to take orders from anyone. In short I was arrogant, stupid and headstrong. That is why, after our victory at Cynuit, I did the wrong thing.
We had fought the Danes beside the ocean, where the river runs from the great swamp and the Saefern Sea slaps on a muddy shore, and there we had beaten them. We had made a great slaughter and I, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, had done my part. In fact, more than my part, for at the battle's end, when the great Lothbrokson, most feared of all the Danish leaders, had cut into our shield wall with his great war axe, I had faced him, beat him and sent him to join the einherjar, that army of the dead to feast and swive in Odin's corpse-hall.
