The Last Kingdom tells the story of Uhtred, named after his father, the Saxon Lord of
Bebbanburg.
When the Danish Earl Ragnar and his viking army invade Northumbria, Lord Uhtred leads
the charge on the battlefield, but loses, dying alongside his army.
The young Uhtred and a Saxon girl named Brida are then taken as slaves by Ragnar.
Ragnar takes a strong liking to the kids, and when Uhtred saves Ragnar’s daughter
Thyra from an assault at the hands of a young viking named Sven, Ragnar blinds Sven in one
eye, banishes his father Kjartan, and adopts Uhtred and Brida as his own children.
They are raised as Danes and pagans and fully assimilate to the Viking lifestyle.
Years later, Uhtred and Brida, now in a relationship, witness Sven and Kjartan burning down Ragnar’s
great hall, killing the Earl and his family, but sparing Thyra to take as a slave.
Uhtred wants to avenge his adopted father, and makes plans to return home to Bebbanburg
to claim his rightful lordship and command his army against Sven and Kjartan.
Unfortunately, his uncle Aelfric has taken over as Lord and has no plans of giving up
his title.
Also complicating things for Uhtred and Brida is the fact that viking warlords Ubba and
Guthrum believe that Uhtred was responsible for Ragnar’s death, making Uhtred an outsider
to both his birth home with the Saxons and his adopted home with the Danes.
Uhtred and Brida flee to Wessex, the last remaining Saxon kingdom, with the hopes of
finding solace there.
They alert King Aethelred and his brother, Lord Alfred, of an impending attack by the
Danes.
Due to Uhtred’s warning, the Saxons win the battle, although King Aethelred is killed,
leaving the crown to Alfred, enraging Aethelred’s son, Aethelwold.
Uhtred pledges his loyalty to Alfred for one year in exchange for Alfred’s future assistance
in Uhtred’s quest for vengeance.
Earl Ragnar’s son, Ragnar the Younger, returns from his own exploits in Ireland to investigate
his father’s murder.
He believes his adopted brother Uhtred, but doesn’t want to wait to enact his vengeance.
And so, Ragnar and Brida part ways with Uhtred.
As Uhtred trains the Saxon army to better fight the Danes, he also is persuaded by Alfred
to take a Saxon wife, Mildrith.
Mildrith births Uhtred a son, but when the baby dies, Uhtred and Mildrith separate.
Meanwhile, Ragnar has joined the other viking warlords in their attacks against the Saxons
and has entered into a relationship with Brida.
Uhtred and Odda, Alfred’s most trusted general, lead many defenses against the invading vikings.
One battle sees Uhtred killing Ubba.
In the season one finale, King Alfred gives a rousing speech to his troops and Uhtred
leads the army into battle, using viking strategies to fight the Danes.
They come out victorious, and Ragnar and Brida are captured as hostages to secure a new peace
with the Danes, while Guthrum converts to Christianity after seeing the Saxon victory
as proof of God.
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In season two of The Last Kingdom, Uhtred is sent on a mission to rescue a Christian
Dane named Guthred from his Danish captors.
Being both a Christian and a Dane, the hope is that Guthred can unite Northumbria against
the pagan invaders.
Uhtred rescues Guthred, who is then crowned King.
Uhtred falls in love with Guthred’s sister, Gisela, but Guthred proves himself to be an
ineffective ruler, failing to reach a peace deal with the Danish brothers Sigefrid and
Erik who also laid claim to the north.
And to top it all off, Guthred is convinced by the mischievous Abbot Eadred that Uhtred
threatened his power, so Guthred has Uhtred sold into slavery.
Ragnar arrives to rescue Uhtred, and former nun turned warrior Hild helps to nurse Uhtred
back to health.
Upon learning that Guthred had promised his sister Gisela to Uhtred’s villainous uncle
Aelfric, Uhtred crashes the wedding, saves Gisela, and kills the evil Abbot Eadred.
Upon learning that Uhtred killed a man of the church, King Alfred forces Uhtred to once
again swear fealty or Ragnar would suffer the consequences.
Uhtred and Ragnar then set their sights on avenging their father’s death and rescuing
their sister.
With Brida and their allies at their side, the group storms Sven and Kjartan’s home,
killing the father and son and rescuing Thyra.
Father Beocca, a long time loyal friend to Uhtred’s Saxon family, nurses Thyra back
to health and the two fall in love and marry.
Three years pass and Uhtred and Gisela have settled down and had kids, but that’s all
disrupted when Uhtred is asked by Sigefrid and Erik to join their revolt against King
Alfred.
Alfred, meanwhile, has married his daughter Aethelflaed to the abusive Aethelred, Lord
of Mercia.
When Sigefrid and Erik capture Aethelflaed and hold her for ransom at their fort, Alfred
is forced to choose between saving his daughter and saving his kingdom.
Alfred decides to pay the ransom to save his daughter, an act his trusted general Odda
strongly disagrees with.
While in captivity, Aethelflaed falls in love with Erik and the two plan to run away together.
Sigefrid discovers Erik and Aethelflaed’s relationship and sees it as a betrayal.
Odda disobeys Alfred’s orders and leads a charge against the fort as Uhtred infiltrates
it to aid in Aethelflaed and Erik’s escape.
During that escape, a bitter Sigefrid kills Erik and Aethelflaed kills Sigefrid for revenge.
Uhtred, Odda, and the Saxon army defeat the Danes at the fort, burning it to the ground
and Aethelflaed is returned to her abusive husband Aethelred.
Odda kills himself for disobeying his king, and Alfred releases Uhtred from his oath.
In season three of The Last Kingdom, King Alfred begins to fall gravely ill.
He demands Uhtred swear an oath of loyalty to his son and heir, Edward, but Uhtred refuses.
When Uhtred’s wife Gisela dies in childbirth, Uhtred burns her body on a Pagan pyre, something
the monk Brother Godwin sees as a desecration against his Christian faith.
When Uhtred accidentally kills the monk, he is forced to flee as Alfred banishes him from
the kingdom.
And that kingdom was in a very precarious situation, as enemies surrounded on all sides.
Alfred’s bitter and villainous nephew Aethelwold wanted the throne for himself and rallies
the Danish armies to join him in battle.
Following his banishment, Uhtred joins Brida, Ragnar, and Ragnar’s cousin Cnut, along
with the Danish army, in their effort to invade Wessex.
Along the way, Uhtred encounters the witch Skade, who places a curse on him.
Meanwhile, Alfred calls upon his son-in-law Aethelred, Lord of Mercia, to send troops
to combat the Danish invaders, but Aethelred refuses.
Instead, Aethelflaed is forced to rally the troops herself and lead them into battle.
This results in the people of Mercia rallying around Aethelflaed as a leader.
In retaliation, Aethelred tries to have his wife killed.
Aethelflaed sends for Uhtred’s help, and he ditches his Danish allies to come to her
aid.
Although Aethelflaed and Uhtred have developed romantic feelings for each other, Uhtred doesn’t
act on them, fearing the curse that has been placed on him by Skade.
And to lift that curse, Uhtred finds Skade and drowns her, allowing him to be with Aethelflaed.
Meanwhile, Aethelwold conspires with Cnut to have Ragnar killed.
After Aethelwold kills Ragnar, Cnut is placed in charge of the Danish army.
Cnut also begins a relationship with Brida, who is unaware that her new lover was responsible
for Ragnar’s death.
As Aethelwold and his Danish allies prepared for battle, he also stoked the fires of civil
unrest in Wessex, pushing the people toward intolerance and bigotry.
Thyra, who converted to Christianity when marrying Beocca, is killed due to her Danish
heritage.
As Alfred’s health continues to decline, he continues teaching his son Edward how to
be king.
Edward marries a common woman who bears him twins, but Alfred’s wife Aelswith has them
taken away so Edward can marry a more suitable match, Aelflaed, daughter of Lord Aethelhelm.
Before his death, Alfred pardons Uhtred, an act Aelswith tries to reverse by once again
imprisoning him.
Edward goes against his mother’s wishes, fully pardoning Uhtred and inviting him to
fight by his side.
Uhtred agrees to join Edward’s army, not under oath, but as a free man.
During the battle between the Saxon and Danish armies, Uhtred finds and kills Aethelwold
on the battlefield, allowing his brother Ragnar to pass into Valhalla.
Edward’s army defeats the viking invaders, living to fight another day.
In season four of The Last Kingdom, Uhtred finally moves forward with his plans to take
out his villainous Uncle Aelfric and reclaim his rightful home of Bebbanburg.
He attacks with a small group, including his friend Beocca and son, Young Uhtred.
But it turns out, Uhtred’s just a little too late, as Aelfric’s son Wihtgar has also
arrived to take control for himself.
Wihtgar kills his father and the men of Bebbanburg pledge to him their loyalty.
They then turn their focus on Uhtred and his men.
Beocca sacrifices himself to save Young Uhtred, as the others flee from Bebbanburg.
Young Uhtred, who resents his father’s violent, Pagan ways, decides to become a cleric of
the Christian church.
Uhtred disavows his son, taking back his name.
And so, Young Uhtred becomes Bishop Oswald.
Meanwhile, Aethelred conspires with his army commander Eardwulf on how to heighten the
power of Mercia to equal that of Wessex.
Eardwulf’s family name had been tarnished, but Aethelred promised to restore it to its
former glory if Eardwulf helps him conquer all of East Anglia.
As they begin fighting to reclaim Viking land in East Anglia, Cnut, Brida and their army
take the opportunity to invade Mercia.
Aethelflaed races to rally Mercian troops to fight back the Danish army.
Edward is persuaded by his shady new advisor and father-in-law Aethelhelm to hold back
on sending forces, as a defeat in Mercia could rid them of the nuisance that Aethelred had
become.
Edward’s mother, Aelswith, has different thoughts on the matter, wanting to not only
protect her daughter, Aethelflaed, but ensure that Edward would still retain the loyalty
of the Mercian people.
And so, Aelswith goes behind Edward’s back to ask the Welsh King Hywel for his assistance.
Meanwhile, Uhtred rushes to be by Aethelflaed’s side and along the way he encounters the Viking
Haesten, who was looking after Cnut’s sons.
Haesten reveals to Uhtred Cnut’s involvement in Ragnar’s death.
Uhtred kidnaps Cnut’s sons and joins Aethelflaed in the Mercian village Tettenhall.
As the Danes attack, the Mercian and Welsh armies defend their land.
Soon, Aethelred arrives with his army, as does Edward with the Wessex army.
With the combined Christian forces, the Danish army is finally defeated.
During the battle, Uhtred and Cnut fight, and a pregnant Brida learns of Cnut’s involvement
in Ragnar’s death.
So she takes her revenge, killing Cnut, the father of her unborn child.
As the battle dies down, Brida asks Uhtred to kill her and send her to Valhalla, but
Uhtred refuses and Brida is captured by the Welsh and made a slave.
During the battle, Aethelred is mortally wounded.
On his deathbed, he must help find a suitable husband for his and Aelthelflaed’s daughter,
Aelfwynn, to ensure their succession of the crown.
Eardwulf befriends Edward, who then proposes Eardwulf would make a perfect match.
When Aethelred rejects this idea, Eardwulf kills him.
Aethelflaed also rejects this proposal, so Edward has her imprisoned until after the
wedding.
Uhtred flees with Aelfwynn and discovers that Eardwulf had murdered Aethelred.
When Uhtred tells Edward this revelation, the King realizes the error of his ways and
dismisses the treacherous Aethelhelm as his advisor.
Edward recognizes the loyalty and respect Uhtred has over the Mercians and decides to
appoint him Lord and Protector of Mercia until a suitable match can be found for Aelfwynn.
Uhtred’s first act on the throne is to immediately relinquish the power to Aethelflaed.
Aethelflaed is made Queen of Mercia until Aelfwynn marries, and takes a vow of chastity
to ensure the succession passes to her daughter.
This move at first infuriates Edward, but he realizes he needed to stay aligned with
his sister and Mercia to keep their kingdom under Saxon control.
Meanwhile, the Viking warlord Sigtryggr raids the Welsh settlements and frees Brida.
As they continue to decimate the Welsh army, they come across and capture Eardwulf, who
was in hiding following his murder of Aethelred.
Eardwulf tells them that Edward had left Winchester undefended, so the Viking army turn their
attention there.
The Danes take control of Winchester and imprison many of its inhabitants, including Aelswith,
Aethelhelm, Aelflaed, Edward’s children and Uhtred’s daughter Stiorra.
When Eardwulf assaults Stiorra, Sigtryggr has him killed.
Uhtred leads a negotiation with Sigtryggr to come to a truce.
Sigtryggr is given the Northumbrian capital of Eoferwic in exchange for his surrender
of Winchester.
Sigtryggr also takes a willing Stiorra as a captive to ensure the truce’s legitimacy.
As the truce between the Saxons and Danes is established and the season comes to a close,
Brida vows to be Uhtred’s undoing, Aethelhelm poisons Aelswith, and Edward entrusts his
son Aethelstan into Uhtred’s care.