07-16-2016, 06:31 PM
(07-15-2016, 04:57 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: I recommend "The Last Kingdom". It's based on the history of early England. A lot of good history in the show, but it is also entertaining.
Saxon England was divided into seven kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex. One by one, they were overrun by the Vikings in the 9th century. All but one: Wessex, a backwater farming community living among the marshlands. Alfred, the king of Wessex, harried the Vikings with guerrilla raids and eventually assembled and trained and army capable of meeting the Vikings in battle. Eventually, Alfred and his offspring would unify the former Saxon kingdoms into England. That would last until the time of Cnut and William... but those are different stories.
And if anyone likes the shoe, it is based on a series of books by Bernard Cornwell.
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