Dear Bernard,
I hope this note finds you well.
Honestly it feels a bit silly to write to you about this, but I’m rather curious. First and foremost, thank you so much for the Last Kingdom series, some of my favourite books of all time.
Now to the silly part, in Sword of Kings Uthred sees a swan flying and takes that as an omen. In my family there is an old story about my grandfather’s brother, which shot and stuffed a swan because it was such a rare sight around year 1900 (we still have the swan in our salon by the way). I believe swans did not exist in England in the 10th century?
With best regards,
Hannes