Sword of Kings. Bernard Cornwell

      

      SWORD OF KINGS

      Bernard Cornwell

       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2019

      Map © John Gilkes 2019

      Cover design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

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      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008183899

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2019 ISBN: 9780008183912

      Version: 2019-08-29

       Dedication

      Sword of Kings is for

      Suzanne Pollak

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Place Names

       Map

      Part One: A Fool’s Errand

      One

      Two

      Three

      Four

      Part Two: City of Darkness

       Five

       Six

       Seven

       Part Three: The Field of Barley

       Eight

       Nine

       Ten

       Part Four: Serpent-Breath

       Eleven

       Twelve

       Thirteen

       Historical Note

       About the Author

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       The Sharpe series

       About the Publisher

       PLACE NAMES

      The spelling of place names in Anglo-Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whichever spelling is cited in either the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign, AD 871–899, but even that solution is not foolproof. Hayling Island, in 956, was written as both Heilincigae and Hæglingaiggæ. Nor have I been consistent myself; I have preferred the modern form Northumbria to Norðhymbralond to avoid the suggestion that the boundaries of the ancient kingdom coincide with those of the modern county. So this list of places mentioned in the book is, like the spellings themselves, capricious.

Andefera	Andover, Wiltshire
Basengas	Basing, Hampshire
Bebbanburg	Bamburgh, Northumberland
Beamfleot	Benfleet, Essex
Caninga	Canvey Island, Essex
Ceaster	Chester, Cheshire
Celmeresburh	Chelmsford, Essex
Cent	Kent
Cestrehunt	Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
Cippanhamm	Chippenham, Wiltshire
Colneceaster	Colchester, Essex
Contwaraburg	Canterbury, Kent
Cyningestun	Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
Crepelgate	Cripplegate, London
Dumnoc	Dunwich, Suffolk
East Seax	Essex
Elentone	Maidenhead, Berkshire
Eoferwic	Saxon name for York, Yorkshire
Fæfresham	Faversham, Kent
Farnea Islands	Farne Islands, Northumberland
Fearnhamme	Farnham, Surrey
Ferentone	Farndon, Cheshire
Fleot, River	River Fleet, London Скачать книгу 1 2 3 4 5 > В конец