Dear Mr. Cornwell, Congratulations on the wonderful achievement of the Saxon Stories. My wife and I have both loved them and are eagerly awaiting the next installment. I have been writing on Alfred for years, so it wasn’t long before I was saying to myself, Wow! He has done all the research! The rendition of fighting in the shield wall was tremendous, Homeric in intensity, and in my experience unprecedented. If you care to recommend any further reading in the period for us to divert ourselves while waiting for Sword Song, we would appreciate it. Best wishes, Bill C.