Hello Bernard. When I was a boy, forty years ago, we had a book called think “People of Britain”. One chapter was on Alfred and the most memorable part, including an illustration of Saxons wielding battle-axes, was the capture of the Raven Banner. That image has stayed with me and was rekindled as I have just read your account of Uhtred’s fight with Ubba. It was always, for me, one of the greatest moments in English history; the capture of the banner whose wing’s flapped as they went into battle. The Raven Banner. David Williams