King Alfred the Great in his dreams saw Britain as a single state, and his son Edward faithfully followed his father’s commandments, but before his death he expressed his last will: the kingdom should be divided. This news is taken by surprise by Utrecht of Bebbanburg, a great general, who at one time gave an oath of allegiance to King Alfred .. And another painful oath burns his heart, and the word must be kept firmly ... After leaving the ancestral nest, he goes to those parts where he is called only as Utred the Pagan, Utred the Godless, Utred the Traitor . A civil war is brewing, and while the two warring parties gather armies, an inexorable fate draws Lord Utrecht to the city of Lunden. There will be a fierce fight, during which the fate of the country will be decided... The twelfth novel from the series “Saxon Chronicles” For the first time in Russian!