This is a story about the times when the Danish Vikings questioned the very existence of Britain, when all the English kingdoms were a hair's breadth from death. And only King Alfred, the only ruler in the history of England, called the Great, intended to defend the independence of the island. The hero of the novel Utred, kidnapped by the Danes in infancy and raised by them as a Viking, honoring the northern gods, growing up, is forced to decide on whose side he will fight. Whether to defend his true homeland or to side with the conquerors? He must make this choice himself, not hoping that fate rules everything. The book includes two novels from the Saxon Chronicles series.