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Uhtred of Bamburgh (Uhtred the Bold—sometimes Uchtred; died ca. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria. He was the son of Waltheof I , ruler of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg) , whose family the Eadwulfingas had ruled the surrounding region for over a century.
Uhtred is the second son of a Saxon lord who rules from the nearly impregnable fortress at Bebbanburg (modern-day Bamburgh) in the kingdom of Northumbria. Danish raiders kill first his older brother, then his father. Uhtred himself is spared only because the Danish leader, Ragnar the Fearless, is amused when the youngster attacks him.
Uhtred, Pyrlig and the other prisoners leave Lundene. Pyrlig tells Uhtred that the corpse was a trick, a living man put into a grave with a reed to breathe through. Uhtred swears to Pyrlig to keep his oath to Alfred. In Wintanceaster, King Alfred gives his older daughter, Æthelflaed, in marriage to the Mercian Earldorman Æthelred.
Guthred – Danish slave rescued by Uhtred who insists he is king of Northumbria; Gisela – Sister of Guthred; Hild – Saxon woman, a former nun who becomes Uhtred's companion, friend and lover; Ragnar Ragnarsson – Danish warlord, son of Earl Ragnar, and Uhtred's foster brother and close friend; Father Beocca – Alfred's priest and Uhtred ...
Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a seasoned Saxon warrior who was raised by the Danes and successfully reclaimed his birthright as the Lord of Bebbanburg.A veteran of countless battles, he once swore oaths to serve Kings Alfred and Edward and is viewed by many as the unofficial king of England's last independent kingdom, Northumbria.
Uhtred leaves some of his men under the command of his loyal follower Finan. He has heard of a prophetess named Aelfadell and is curious. Uhtred unwarily drinks a drugged potion she gives him. He awakes tied up, with vague memories of the previous night. Then three monks debate killing him, but Uhtred frees himself and slaughters them instead.
In 866, Danish earl Ragnar leads a fleet of dragonships to the coast of Northumbria, where he kills the eldest son of the Saxon Lord of Bebbanburg Uhtred (Matthew Macfadyen). Uhtred engages Ragnar and his Danish army at Eoferwic. The Danes feign a retreat, leading the reserves of the Saxon army to attack, and then be flanked by a hidden force ...
Uhtred is devastated by the news that his beloved wife, Gisela, has died in childbirth, along with the newborn child. When Uhtred and Skade return to Lundene, the cleric Godwin denounces Gisela, ranting that Gisela was the devil's whore and has come back from the dead as Skade. Uhtred flies into a rage and strikes him, unintentionally killing him.