He has a name for this vision, "England," but needs warriors to bring it to fruition. Alfred has a vision of the seven kingdoms united as one, under one ruler and the One True God. The one man who may be able to stem the tide is the newly-crowned King of Wessex, Alfred. The British kingdoms are fighting back piecemeal, but are vulnerable to being attacked and destroyed in isolation. The Danes had originally come as raiders from across the North Sea, but by the time of the series they have established colonies throughout eastern Britain, using them as springboards to further invasions. Both the Last Kingom novels (by Bernard Cornwell) and the TV series are set in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, when the island of Britain is contested between seven feuding Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, Essex, East Anglia, Kent and Sussex) and the invading Danes.
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