Or, The Days of King Alfred (870-900)

The Saxons and the Danes fought fierce battles for supremacy in Britain in the eighth and ninth centuries. The Norsemen conquered East Anglia, crossed the Thames, and engaged the West Saxons in a series of battles in A.D. 871. In the midst of the struggle, 23-year-old Alfred ascended the tottering throne and temporarily beat back the pagan hordes and concluded a peace treaty, which proved temporary. Following another war in 878, peace was again achieved; the Danish King Guthrum accepted Christianity and withdrew to East Anglia, and Alfred the Great fortified the cities, built a navy, codified the laws, and revived learning among the Saxons until his death in A.D. 900.

The hero is a young Saxon thane named Edmund who joins the forces of King Alfred and fights the Danes on land and sea. Driven from his home, Edmund takes on the Vikings in their own element, the sea, in his ship The Dragon. The young Earldoman is carried by storms to the shores of Norway where he defeats Sweyn the Viking in single combat. Edmund takes part in the siege of Paris on behalf of the Franks and tracks down his nemesis in order to rescue the Danish maiden he will later marry before returning to England to rejoin Alfred.

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