Dear Bernard Cornwell: I have just finished your Death of Kings and though I thought it great read I also was offput by a serious anachronism. You had everyone galloping around on horseback at a time when there were few if any horses around. Almost a hundred years later, Harold’s army arrived at the battle of Hastings with 7,000 infantry and perhaps a few mounted soldiers. You had 7.000 Danes and 4,000 Saxons on horseback at a time when there was no infrastructure to carry horses in those numbers through an English winter. Hay was not available as a major crop at this time for example. I have read lots of your books with great enjoyment and am not usually this picky but I felt I had to make a comment this time. Graham