Cornwell subsequently posted a note on his web site that " The Warrior Chronicles/ Saxon Stories had been renamed The Last Kingdom series".
A third, fourth and fifth season were produced by Netflix. The first two seasons were made by the BBC. The first ten novels in the series were adapted for five seasons of the television series The Last Kingdom, starring Alexander Dreymon. Uhtred, despite his inclinations otherwise, repeatedly fights and schemes to bring about Alfred's dream over the course of a long life. Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallies his forces and begins the long struggle to fulfill his ambition of uniting all English speakers in one realm. The story begins with the conquest of all but one of the major Saxon kingdoms by the Danes, with Wessex, the last kingdom, nearly overrun. The name of the fictional protagonist comes from the historical Uhtred the Bold Cornwell is a descendant of this family.
He is captured as a child and raised by a Danish warlord. The protagonist of the series is Uhtred of Bebbanburg, born to a Saxon lord in Northumbria. The Saxon Stories (also known as Saxon Tales/ Saxon Chronicles in the US and The Warrior Chronicles and most recently as The Last Kingdom series) is a historical novel series written by Bernard Cornwell about the birth of England in the ninth and tenth centuries.
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