dcmegriley: my top ten favourite period dramas | five the last kingdom (2015-present) “i was

dcmegriley:

my top ten favourite period dramas|five

the last kingdom (2015-present)

“i was born an ealdorman of england, true heir to the northumbrian lands of bebbanburg. i was twelve years old when i first went to war. i saw my father killed. my uncle took my lands, and pledged his allegiance to the danes. stolen by the invaders, along with a saxon girl, brida, i became first a slave, then a son to earl ragnar. that was my family, my life; young ragnar my brother, and brida my lover. fate had made me a dane, and then fate brought betrayal. destiny is all.”