King Alfred the Great in his dreams saw Britain as a single state, and his son Edward religiously followed his father’s precepts, but before his death he expressed his last will: the kingdom should be divided. This news takes Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the great commander who once swore an oath of allegiance to King Alfred, by surprise. And another painful oath burns his heart, and his word must be kept firmly... Having left his family nest, he goes to those lands where he is called nothing less than Uhtred the Pagan, Uhtred the Atheist, Uhtred the Traitor. Civil war is brewing, and while the two warring sides gather armies, an inexorable fate draws Lord Uhtred to the city of Lunden. A fierce battle will take place here, during which the fate of the country will be decided... The twelfth novel from the “Saxon Chronicles” series. For the first time in Russian!