Bernard Cornwell

The Lords of the North


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ard Cornwell

      The Lords of the North

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2006

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2006

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      Photography by Steffan Hill © Carnival Film & Television Limited 2017.

      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007219704

      Ebook Edition © September 2008 ISBN: 9780007236879

      Version: 2017-10-18

      The Lords of the North

      is for Ed Breslin

      . . . . . Com on wanre niht scriðan sceadugenga

      From out of the wan night slides the shadow walker

Beowulf

      Place-names

      The spelling of place names in Anglo Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whichever spelling is cited in either the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign, AD 871–899, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I should spell England as Englaland, and have preferred the modern form Northumbria to Norðhymbralond to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.

      Æthelingæg

      Athelney, Somerset

      Alclyt

      Bishop Auckland, County Durham

      Baðum (pronounced Bathum)

      Bath, Avon

      Bebbanburg

      Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland

      Berrocscire

      Berkshire

      Cair Ligualid

      Carlisle, Cumbria

      Cetreht

      Catterick, Yorkshire

      Cippanhamm

      Chippenham, Wiltshire

      Contwaraburg

      Canterbury, Kent

      Cumbraland

      Cumbria

      Cuncacester

      Chester-le-Street, County Durham

      Cynuit

      Cynuit Hillfort, nr Cannington, Somerset

      Defnascir

      Devonshire

      Dornwaraceaster

      Dorchester, Dorset

      Dunholm

      Durham, County Durham

      Dyflin

      Dublin, Eire

      Eoferwic

      York

      Ethandun

      Edington, Wiltshire

      Exanceaster

      Exeter, Devon

      Fifhidan

      Fyfield, Wiltshire

      Gleawecestre

      Gloucester, Gloucestershire

      Gyruum

      Jarrow, County Durham

      Hamptonscir

      Hampshire

      Haithabu

      Hedeby, trading town in southern Denmark

      Heagostealdes

      Hexham, Northumberland

      Hedene

      River Eden, Cumbria

      Hocchale

      Houghall, County Durham

      Horn

      Hofn, Iceland

      Hreapandune

      Repton, Derbyshire

      Kenet

      River Kennet

      Lindisfarena

      Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland

      Lundene

      London

      Onhripum

      Ripon, Yorkshire

      Pedredan

      River Parrett

      Readingum

      Reading, Berkshire

      Scireburnan

      Sherborne, Dorset

      Snotengaham

      Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

      Strath Clota

      Strathclyde

      Sumorsæte

      Somerset

      Suth Seaxa

      Sussex (South Saxons)

      Synningthwait

      Swinithwaite,