5/20/2023 0 Comments The pale horsemanBook enhanced with curriculum aligned questions. The Pale Horseman, an even more powerful and dramatic book than The Last Kingdom, brings both Uhtred and the Saxons' dilemmas vividly to life. The is the exciting - yet little known - story of the making of England in the ninth and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of Englands four kingdoms. Read The Pale Horseman: A Novel by Cornwell, Bernard, lexile & reading level: 900, (ISBN: 9780061801914). But once there, the attractions of his many friends among the Vikings coupled with his disillusion with the Saxons' leadership and anger at Alfred's criticism of his own conduct, draws him back again to his allegiance to the Vikings. His plan is to become accepted by their leaders, and to sit in their councils and uncover their plans. RT Neloangelo314: White Horse- Conquest Red horse- War Black Horse- Famine Pale horse- Death These are the 4 horseman of the apocalypse. Determined to discover the enemy's strategies, he draws once again on his Viking upbringing, and attempts to enter the Viking camps. There, forced to move restlessly to escape betrayal or detection, using the marsh mists for cover, they travel by small boats from one island refuge to another, hoping that they can regroup and find some more strength and support. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings who now occupy most of England, Alfred and his very small group of surviving followers retreat to the trackless marshlands of Somerset.
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