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Автор: Bernard Cornwell
Издательство: HarperCollins
Серия: The Last Kingdom Series
Жанр произведения: Морские приключения
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isbn: 9780007279654
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      SWORD SONG

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      BERNARD CORNWELL

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       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2007

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2007

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Cover illustration © Keevil Design

      Map © John Gilkes 2007

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

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780007219735

       Ebook Edition © December 2010 ISBN: 9780007279654

      Version: 2019-10-16

      SWORD SONG

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      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Map

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Part Two: THE CITY

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Part Three: THE SCOURING

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Historical Note

       About the Author

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       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 should spell England as Englaland, and 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, like the spellings themselves, is capricious.

Æscengum Eashing, Surrey
Arwan River Orwell, Suffolk
Beamfleot Benfleet, Essex
Bebbanburg Bamburgh, Northumberland
Berrocscire Berkshire
Cair Ligualid Carlisle, Cumbria
Caninga Canvey Island, Essex
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