Eadric And The Wolves: A Novel Of The Danish Conquest Of England by David K. Mullaly

The More Things Change…
England in the year 1000 A.D. was a society divided: two cultures hostile to each other. Hate crimes were common. There were groups of foreigners who intended to wreak havoc on the general population, and some residents were blamed for the violence of those outsiders.

The terrorists were Vikings, and the attacks had been ongoing for two hundred years. The long-established residents were Anglo-Saxon, but thousands of people with Scandinavian roots had set up lives there, some families having had homes there for over a century.

A young man named Eadric, coming from an insignificant family in the woodlands of Mercia, became a powerful figure in English society. The king named him ealdorman, and he married the king’s daughter. However, he ultimately turned against the king and the royal family in favor of a Viking.

This story provides a plausible explanation for an infamous betrayal.