The series is instead a historically rooted drama about the ninth-century wars between the Anglo-Saxons and Viking invaders.
Based on Bernard Cornwells bestselling series of Saxon stories, the drama is set in England during the reign of King Alfred, when the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Vikings and the great kingdom of Wessex has been left standing alone and defiant.
Merging historical figures and fiction, The Last Kingdoms hero is Uhtred, born the son of a Saxon nobleman, who is orphaned by the Vikings and then kidnapped and raised as one of their own.
Forced to choose between the country of his birth and the people of his upbringing, Uhtred treads a dangerous path between Saxon and Viking as he seeks to recapture his ancestral lands.
The Last Kingdom promises heroic deeds and epic battles as well as clashes involving warriors like Ivar the Boneless and his feared brother, Ubba.