The Anglo-Saxons are a very prideful tribe that takes honor in everything they do. They basic theory in early history says that the more land you own the more have the more powerful you are. In this novel the Danes portray a Viking role. They believe that it is their sole goal and destiny to imperialize all of England. With each area that they overturn they gain resources, and hostages. In the novel, Uhtred is captured, held hostage, and raised as a Dane after the murder of his father and brother. Due to the deaths in his family Uhtred becomes the new earl of Bebbanburg. The novel is told from the point of older Uhtred who says, “I dream and know that one day I will take back the land from those who stole it from me…the fading parchments are
