The Last Kingdom

Series two returns to find Uhtred, the fearless and instinctive warrior, beginning his voyage north to reclaim his fate: to avenge Earl Ragnar’s death, and recapture his ancestral lands of Bebbanburg.

When spies infiltrate the Cumbraland army, Uhtred must rely on his troops to protect him from a perilous attack. He rides as the dead horseman once again, and Kjartan’s thirst for revenge grows ever stronger.

Uhtred is thrown in chains on a ship and Hild and Ragnar embark on their mission to free him, but time is not on their side.

Uhtred is under orders from Alfred to rid Northumbria of the warlord brothers Erik and Sigefrid, but Ragnar is now free and intent on avenging Kjartan for the death of his family – can Uhtred come to his brother’s aid without defying the king?

Some time has passed since the battle of Dunholm and Uhtred still serves Alfred, as lord of the Wessex town of Coccham. Despite the peace of recent years, trouble is brewing in nearby East Anglia, and Aethelwold brings Uhtred a strange tale along with a proposition that is hard to ignore.

Winchester celebrates Aethelred and Aethelflaed’s wedding, but the festivities are short lived as the clouds of war gather and Alfred runs out of options to keep the peace.

Aethelflaed is missing and Aethelred and the Saxons return to Winchester to break the news to King Alfred, while Uhtred goes home to Gisela with plans to uncover the truth by his own means.

When King Alfred is told the great sum of Aethelflaed’s ransom - and the horror that will likely befall his daughter if Wessex does not pay - he feels there can be only one way forward despite this jeopardising the kingdom.