Dear Mr. Cornwell I have a question regarding viking history, but first I want to tell you how much I enjoy your Saxon Stories. I have spent more than a few hours, rapped up in your marvellous writing. I started reading the books backwards and have just now started the first book about Uhtred, The Last Kingdom. In this book Uhtred tells us that the Danes had returned to Northumbria. That they had been there before he was born, and among other enterprises, raided the monastery at Lindisfarne. In my history lessons I was taught that the Vikings that raided Lindisfarne, was in fact Norwegian. Is this information incorrect? Have I fallen a victim of national pride and false facts, do you think? I studied history for a year, and a really old account of the Viking period (from 1936 I think), was the only book in the curriculum. I have rummaged my attic for the copy and have not yet found it, but I am sure it stated that the Viking raids was performed, both by Norwegians and Danes. I am reading the translated version of The Last Kingdom, the only copy I could get a hold of, but I hope the translator have been true to your English manuscript. No doubt, at least as to labels. Sadly, I am not yet sure if he is true to your extraordinary narrative voice, and I am looking forward to returning to your original writing for the last two books. If you have reading tips on Viking History that could balance my Norwegian accounts, it would be appreciated. Sigrid Kjelland Olsen