With my ancestry both English and Danish, I have found your series with Uhtred most interesting. Since you have spent time researching for this book, I have a question to ask regarding names. My family name was Johansen. The Danish people all spelled their names with “sen” while those of Norwegian or Swedish descent were spelled “son” in the community where I lived as a child. In your book you always used “son” for the Danes. Is the use of “sen” for Danes a more recent usage? Although I have relatives in Denmark yet today, I only have two centuries of genealogy at my disposal to check the spelling of our names. Thank you for efforts to make history more alive.

Patricia Starr