I read The Fort which I enjoyed very much and just read Death of Kings, also terrific.  In Death of Kings Uhtred’s stallion Borg rears and comes down and chews up the enemy’s face?  Did you write this from imagination or is there a source for using horses in this way early on?  How would you train a horse so specifically to do this without having it savage a nearby slave or other expendable person?  I saw an on line debate about how horses were used in this period and the sources I saw mentioned horses but didn’t particularly say how they were used.  Also, Uhtred for all his use of swords never gets them sharpened anywhere like at a farrier’s.  What did the traveling warrior do?
Patty