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The second book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.A hero will be forged from this broken land.As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.When peace is torn apart by bloody Danish steel, Uhtred must fight to save a king who distrusts him.Skeptical of a treaty between the Vikings and Wessex, Uhtred takes his talent for mayhem to Cornwall, gaining treasure and a mysterious woman on the way. But when he is accused of massacring Christians, he finds lies can be as deadly as steel.Still, when pious King Alfred flees to a watery refuge, it is the pagan warrior he relies on. Now Uhtred must fight a battle which will shape history – and confront the Viking with the banner of the white horse …Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s mind is as sharp as his sword. A thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and those he has sworn to serve.

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THE PALE

HORSEMAN

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BERNARD CORNWELL

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Copyright

Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2005

Cover images © Shutterstock.com(stone texture, silver pendant)

Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2016

Cover illustration © Lee Gibbons/Tin Moon – www.leegibbons.co.uk

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: 9780008139483

Ebook Edition © July 2009 ISBN: 9780007338825

Version: 2019-09-27

Dedication

THE PALE HORSEMAN

is for

George MacDonald Fraser,

in admiration

Ac her forlo berað; fugelas singað, gylleð grœghama.

For here starts war, carrion birds sing, and grey wolves howl.

From The Fight at Finnsburh

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Map

Place Names

Part One: VIKING

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Part Two: THE SWAMP KING

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Part Three: THE FYRD

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Historical Note

Keep Reading …

About the Author

Also by Bernard Cornwell

About the Publisher

PLACE NAMES The spelling of Place Names in AngloSaxon England was an - фото 3

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 the Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign, 871–899 AD, 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 use England instead of 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.

Æsc’s Hill Ashdown, Berkshire
Æthelingæg Athelney, Somerset
Afen River Avon, Wiltshire
Andefera Andover, Wiltshire
Baðum (pronounced Bathum) Bath, Avon
Bebbanburg Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
Brant Brent Knoll, Somerset
Bru River Brue, Somerset
Cippanhamm Chippenham, Wiltshire
Contwaraburg Canterbury, Kent
Cornwalum Cornwall
Cracgelad Cricklade, Wiltshire
Cridianton Crediton, Devon
Cynuit Cynuit Hillfort, nr. Cannington, Somerset
Dærentmora Dartmoor, Devon
Defereal Kingston Deverill, Wiltshire
Defnascir Devonshire
Dornwaraceaster Dorchester, Dorset
Dreyndynas ‘Fort of thorns’, fictional, set in Cornwall
Dunholm Durham, County Durham
Dyfed South-west Wales, mostly now Pembrokeshire
Dyflin Dublin, Eire
Eoferwic York (also the Danish Jorvic, pronounced Yorvik)
Ethandun Edington, Wiltshire
Exanceaster Exeter, Devon
Exanmynster Exminster, Devon
Gewæsc The Wash
Gifle Yeovil, Somerset
Gleawecestre Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Glwysing Welsh kingdom, approximately Glamorgan and Gwent
Hamptonscir Hampshire
Hamtun Southampton, Hampshire
Lindisfarena Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland
Lundene London
Lundi Lundy Island, Devon
Mærlebeorg Marlborough, Wiltshire
Ocmundtun Okehampton, Devon
Palfleot Pawlett, Somerset
Pedredan River Parrett
Penwith Land’s End, Cornwall
Readingum Reading, Berkshire
Sæfern River Severn
Sceapig Isle of Sheppey, Kent
Scireburnan Sherborne, Dorset
Sillans The Scilly Isles
Soppan Byrg Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Sumorsæte Somerset
Suth Seaxa Sussex (South Saxons)
Tamur River Tamar
Temes River Thames
Thon River Tone, Somerset
Thornsæta Dorset
Uisc River Exe
Werham Wareham, Dorset
Wilig River Wylye
Wiltunscir Wiltshire
Winburnan Wimborne Minster, Dorset
Wintanceaster Winchester, Hampshire

PART ONE

Viking

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One

These days I look at twenty-year-olds and think they are pathetically young, scarcely weaned from their mothers’ tits, but when I was twenty I considered myself a full-grown man. I had fathered a child, fought in the shield wall, and was loath to take advice from anyone. In short I was arrogant, stupid and headstrong. Which is why, after our victory at Cynuit, I did the wrong thing.

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