Hi Bernard.

Just discovered you a few months ago and am very much enjoying your Last Kingdom books. I’m on the 8th.  My question / observation is this:  It seems the Angles / Jutes (Danes?) came from the Denmark area in the 5th century, and with the Saxons, took over the land. Then the Danes invaded in the 9th and 10th centuries (Vikings). Then the Normans in 1066. I only just found out that “Norman” refers to “North Men”, never having studied this history. So weren’t the Normans technically just more Danes that had taken western France ?  It seems it was one century after another of Danish invasion under various names and from different directions.  Maybe England really is just “Daneland”? haha Wouldn’t these Dane families have kept in contact over the years? Wouldn’t the “Viking raiders” recognize that they had the same origin as the Angle/Jutes? I’m confused. Thanks so much for the entertaining reads!

Susan McNab