Hi Mr. Cornwell.
Here’s a question that recently occurred to me: In the afterword to some of your Uhtred novels, you state that England stood in the balance during the Viking Invasions, and if Alfred had lost, it would have been Daneland and we in America would be speaking some form of Danish. But a little more than a century later, William the Conqueror took over England and did away with the Saxon way of things. Yet England remained, it did not become “Normanland” are we are not speaking some form of Norman-French today. Why is it that the Danish/Norse conquest would have done away with England and the the Norman Conquest did not?
Alan Kempner