Alfred the supposedly Great was a flawed man. Its funny how history paints him as a saint and he was hardly one himself. It was actually his decadents who formed England.Today I finished the Burning Land, which is book five of the Saxon stories. Finally, finally in this book Uhtred has had enough of Alfred's stuff, hits the road and heads up north to take back his family property, except…..he doesn't. Another oath that he'd made comes back to haunt him, and instead of fulfilling his own personal quest, he's drawn back into the plot that will eventually result in the formation of England.
Of course, all that is still quite some years away.
Uhtred was a minor character in history unfortunately.