The 890’s – storms are brewing in Valhalla. It's the final years of the reign of Alfred the Great. After a period of relative ...

In January 878 AD, Alfred, king of Wessex, was on the verge of disaster. He had been ambushed and nearly killed by one of the most brutal armies ever to invade Britain: the Vikings. Within months ...

when the Great Army fled northward from Wessex after Alfred the Great’s victory over Guthrum, the king of the Vikings, at the Battle of Edington, in what is now Wiltshire. This battle ...

The Last Kingdom is based on the historical novels by Bernard Cornwell - and while Uhtred of Bebbanburg is a fictional character, he is based on a real-life figure from history ...

The first of King Alfred’s battles against the Danes was in May 871 in Wilton, Wiltshire. This was to be a catastrophic defeat for Wessex, and as a consequence Alfred was forced to make peace with (or ...

Ten years of conflict ensued and by the mid 870s, all but the kingdom of Wessex had fallen to the Norsemen. The Danish warlord Guthrum the Old now led the Viking army whilst Alfred the Great was the ...

The bloodbath at Brunanburh in 937 AD was fought by King Athelstan when he united the Anglo-Saxons for the first time to fight off a Viking invasion ... Athelstan and his brother Edmund returned to ...

King Ecbert is the ruler of Wessex, the largest of the five kingdoms in England ... Ecbert has always anticipated that he must someday face the Vikings and is prepared with strategies as to how they ...

While Trump did publicly say he wanted to meet King Harald, there is no evidence that Harald rejected him in favor of meeting Obama. While Obama happened to be in Oslo, Norway, for another ...

Brian Johnson, a.k.a. the Liver King, is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, Untold: The Liver King. The businessman and gonzo social media influencer promoted a controversial diet comprised ...

After her wedding, she was known as the Countess of Wessex. In March 2023, Edward and Sophie were given the title of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. The pair share two children - Lady Louise ...