I’ve just finished The Burning Land and I’ve read all of the Uhtred books.As I’m a Scot of Viking origins, I feel I can relate to him, even though he has nothing much nice to say about the Scots! I write this from my home in Spain and I look back over my seventy odd years and, in my modern way, I relate to Uhtred. I can relate to his times, though I would not last long. I’ve also recently read Conn Iggulden’s Genghis Khan and Julius series. Did you teach him his style? John Inglis