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You can watch The Last Kingdom every Thursday at 9pm on BBC2 or every Saturday at 10/9c on BBC America
The year is 872, and many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Danes, leaving the great kingdom of Wessex standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred.
Against this turbulent backdrop lives our hero, Uhtred. Born the son of a Sax