The Last Kingdom draws a great deal from history, but is the character of Uhtred of Bebbanburg among them? The formidable warrior of the TV series may be a fiction but, writes Professor Ryan Lavelle, he has parallels in real history – not least an 11th-century ealdorman named Uhtred, who fought the Vikings and married the daughter of King Æthelred II…
Was King Edmund Ironside really killed by a "cesspit assassin"? Suspicious circumstances surrounding his untimely death have led to centuries of speculation.
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