The Last Kingdom: What is the book template? We clarify

The Last Kingdom was able to quickly win over many fans on Netflix, accordingly, the series continued. We explain the connections to the book template.

The Eternal Uhtred: The Last Kingdom is based on the very successful saga of Bernard Cornwell.

The TV series is based on the books of British author Bernard Cornwell. This created a global success with the saga of Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

The Last Kingdom: book templates listed in order

First, the look at the title of the TV series and the books:

• The Last Kingdom is not the name of the whole book series, but only of the first book, which appeared in 2004.
• The TV series, however, listens to this title throughout, for reasons of consistency and recognizability.

After this formality is clarified, here is the look at the individual books each with the original English title and year of publication, as well as the German translations:

• The Last Kingdom (2004) / Das letzte Königreich (2007)
• The Pale Horseman (2005) / Der Weiße Reiter (2007)
• The Lords of the North (2006) / Die Herren des Nordens https://www.amazon.com/lords-of-the-north-historical-novel-uhtred-saga/dp/3499245388/?tag=tipcenter-red-21 (2008)
• Sword Song (2007) / Schwertgesang (2008)
• The Burning Land (2009) / Das brennende Land (2010)
• Death of Kings (2011) / Der sterbende König (2012)
• The Pagan Lord (2013) / Der Heidenfürst (2014)
• The Empty Throne (2014) / Der leere Thron (2015)
• Warriors of the Storm (2015) / Die dunklen Krieger (2016)
• The Flame Bearer (2016) / Der Flammenträger (2017)
• War of the Wolf (2018) / Wolfskrieg (2019)
• Sword of Kings (2019) / Das Königsschwert (2020)

Auf Fans warten somit ganze zwölf Bücher – mehr als genug Lesestoff, um die Zeit zwischen den Staffeln der TV-Serie zu überbrücken.