Knut - Vengeance

📖 The Scoop

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English children learn that Knut the Great was a pre-Norman king born of Royal Danish blood who thought he could command the ocean tides. The rest of Europe learn that he was the Emperor of the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Irish Sea and the Channel.

Knut was the son of Sweyn Forkbeard, a Danish king of kings who by 1000AD ruled all of Scandinavia. His empire was at peace, trade was thriving, and life was better than anyone could remember. But then the King of the Anglo Saxons, Aethelred the ‘Ill Advised’, ordered the massacre of all Danes on St. Brice’s market day. Why? When surely such a slaughter would be avenged?

About the Author

Skye Smith is my pen name. My interest in Knut stems from the endless research I did while writing “The Hoodsman” series of historical novels about the Norman invasion of England. That invasion by William the Conqueror was not a quick subjugation of an Anglo-Saxon England, but a long and bitter genocide of an Anglo-Danish England and the destruction of Knut’s great legacy.

The first novel “Knut - Jomsviking” sets the characters and scene for the entire series, so if you haven’t yet read it, now would be a good time. This sixth novel in historical sequence describes how the vengeance of the Danes began against Aethelred the Unread.

Other Novels By The Same Author:

The Hoodsman – 12 historical adventures set in the Norman conquest.

Maya’s Aura – 8 new age adventures while tripping around the world.

The Pistoleer – 9 historical adventures set in the English Civil War.

Knut – many historical adventures set in the Viking Era.

Knut #1 – Jomsviking (980 – 984)

Knut #2 – Varangian (986 – 992)

Knut #3 – Strandhogg (993 – 994)

Knut #4 – Forkbeard’s Peace (995 – 999)

Knut #5 – Brice’s Massacre (1000 – 1002)

Knut #6 – Vengeance (1002 – 1004)

Knut #7 – Invasion (1004 – 1006 coming soon)

Genre: Fiction / Action & Adventure (fancy, right?)