About a decade before Bernard Cornwell began writing his Saxon Stories books, which Netflix would adapt as The Last Kingdom, he wrote The Warlord Chronicles, a three-book seires now more widely ...

and that Alfred’s Wessex would be the last Saxon kingdom. Instead Wessex expanded until, under Alfred’s grandson, the new nation emerged. England. Now he comes to life in a television series.

The Last Kingdom is a historical fiction series based on Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of novels. The Last Kingdom begins in 866 with the Viking conquest of York, when England is ...