Dear Mr. Cornwell, I have just finished reading “The Last Kingdom” and can’t wait for the second part to come out. One comment though, Streonshalh is the Anglo Saxon name for Whitby in North Yorkshire, so not so close to York (especially in those days). In the Rev. George Young’s “A Picture of Whitby” he writes that Streonshalh was so devastated by the Danes that its name was forgotten during its period of desolation lasting around 200 years and it was renamed Whitby (or “White Bay”) because the town was rebuilt from the white stones of the desecrated abbey. Love your books. Thank you, Pamela Bolwerk