This is the story of the times when the Danish Vikings questioned the very existence of Britain, when all the English kingdoms were on the verge of destruction. And only King Alfred, the only ruler in the history of England, called the Great, was determined to defend the independence of his native Wessex and the island as a whole. The hero of the novel, Uhtred, kidnapped by the Danes in infancy and raised by them as a Viking, who worships the northern gods, having grown up, is forced to decide on whose side he will fight. Should I defend my true homeland or take the side of the conquerors? He must make this choice himself, not counting on the fact that everything is already predetermined by fate. The fourth novel from the “Saxon Chronicles” series. For the first time in Russian!