Hello, I've just finished reading the first two books in the Saxon series in Swedish. I'll probably have to turn to the English originals for the other two since I assume it will be some time before they are translated. I really liked your books both as good reading but also for the historical interest. I'm involved in a viking association where we shoot old time bows and arrows and we have also organised a couple of viking festivals: http://www.gnejron.se/engindex.html. This year we had a Swedish historian/author holding a couple of lectures.
I wonder how certain one can be of the historical facts. In my genealogy I have found a connection with king Edvard (1003-1066). According to some source he had a daughter Jutta that married a Kiev king and a granddaughter of theirs married a Danish king. My son also used king Egbert as a base for a historical project in school. It this Egbert stone actually a place you can visit today in England? Johan
I wonder how certain you can be of historical facts too! And the farther you go back in history, the murkier those facts are! As for Egbert's stone, there are four possible locations - Stourhead in Wiltshire (worth a visit, even if no stone remains). The village of Coombe Street (near Stourhead) where tradition says Egbert raised a stone to mark where three counties joined (I'm told there is a small boulder there, but I've not seen it). The village of Willoughby Hedge (doubtful) and lastly Kingston Deverill (also Wiltshire) where legend says three large stones once stood on Kings Court Hill. The stones were brought to the village where two remain close to the church (but on private ground). The stones were known as King Egbert's stones, but were probably neolithic monuments (same age as Stonehenge or earlier). My bet would be Kingston Deverill, but Stourhead is also a strong possibility.