The Saxon Chronicles Complete – Bernard Cornwell Free Audiobook

Written by Bernard Cornwell
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Bernard Cornwell – The Saxon Chronicles

1. The Last Kingdom

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Read By: Tom Sellwood  

Running Time: 12:55

Description

This book is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned
at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred’s fate is bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the
only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between Christianity and paganism is
the background to Uhtred’s growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will
become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfred’s kingdom.  

2. The Pale Horseman

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Read By: Tom Sellwood  

Running Time: 14:30

Description

Uhtred, Northumbrian born, raised a Viking and married to a Saxon, is a formidable warrior, and he, together with the thoughtful and pious Alfred, Alfred’s
family and a few of Uhtred’s companions, are apparently all that remain of the Wessex leadership after a disastrous truce. Defeated comprehensively by
the Vikings, Alfred and his Saxon followers seek refuge in Athelney, a tidal swamp and all that is left of Alfred’s kingdom.  

3. The Lords of the North

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Read By: Richard Armitage  

Running Time: 12:00

Description

The year is 878 and Wessex is free from the Vikings. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, helped Alfred win that victory, but now he is
disgusted by Alfred’s lack of generosity and repelled by the king’s insistent piety. He flees Wessex, going back north to seek revenge for the killing
of his foster father and to rescue his stepsister, captured in the same raid. He needs to find his old enemy, Kjartan, a renegade Danish lord at his stronghold
of Dunholm.  

4. Sword Song

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Read By: Jamie Glover

Running Time: 5:46

Description

Sword Song continues the story of Uhtred, the Saxon warrior who is a reluctant ally of Alfred the Great. This story, which occurs some five years after
the events described in Lords of the North, tells how Alfred’s forces evict the Danes from London. Wessex, Alfred’s kingdom, has survived the great Viking
assaults and now, with Uhtred as a leader, the West Saxon forces begin the campaigns of conquest that will end with a new kingdom called England.

5. The Burning Land

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Read By: Stephen Perring

Running Time: 10:59

Description

This novel, the fifth in the magnificent series of England’s history, tells of the final assaults on Alfred’s Wessex.

These last two books are not my rip and I have not yet listened to them, so I am not sure of the quality of the sound, I have quickly scanned through them and the bits I have listened to are good.

I am currently preparing the Grail Quest for upload, and I hope to put it up in a day or so.