hi Bernard,
firstly, thank you so much for writing the last kingdom series. i saw the tv series, loved it, and immediately began reading it from the beginning. secondly, thank you for being not only an incredible story-teller, but also an extremely prolific one! i listen to audiobooks too and am listening to sharpe’s tiger and it’s great. so my question is in regards to sword song when uhtred is retaking london from siegfred (sp) and erik, and he takes the 2 ships through the gap in london bridge. my understanding from the map is that the portion of london east of the bridge was fortified by the enemy? or was it the west side? it sounds like uhtred is rowing west to east towards the estuary, which would have been in the direction of the river’s flow. but then the location of ludd’s gate doesn’t make sense unless they were rowing against the river at high tide going east to west. i think it must be the latter, right? and the water level was lower west of the bridge because of high tide? thank you for the clarification! also, was there ever a gap or did you make that up?
sincerely,
Sarah