Hi Bernard,

Big, big fan . You and your books/characters are international treasures. In fact I think that you may have inadvertantly inspired a sub-genre of extreme metal with your Saxon books. It seems blindingly obvious because the formation and relativey successful careers of these bands have occured within the publication of Uhtreds books. Take the manchester group Winterfylleth for example. They have an album called the mercian sphere dedicated to Harry Patch which has a few songs about a shield walls etc and everything they write about is quite specifically about that rough era of britain with many folk elements to their music and its not only them, there is also their kinsmen Wodensthrone another band is called wyrd!  I dont think they are even an british band so yeah where could they have picked that up I wonder?  Were you aware of this already and if so do you an opinion of these guys? Have any of them been in contact or sent you a cd? Its the least they could do even if
you don’t like how it sounds much. Anyway hope that was interesting. Looking forward to whatever you release next. I’ll be buying the hard copy.

P.s. I’ve tried writing h.f. and that made me admire you all the more for your quality and being so prolific.

Jack. 24 From Aylesbury