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Thanks for mentioning. I was looking for such a series. As per Wikipedia, it's historical fiction. So, wouldn't it be somewhat different than real history?

• benplumley 8y ago
  If the show is true to the books, it's fiction in the sense that individual characters and minor events are made up, but the historical setting and major events are close to accurate. After all, you can't realistically make it completely historically accurate down to the names of minor characters, simply because they weren't documented (or the documents didn't survive).
• jillesvangurp 8y ago
  It's a romanticized version of several events that actually took place featuring e.g. King Alfred and other historical characters. While there are some written records from that era, there's not much to go on. It was called the dark middle ages for a reason. So, the script writers probably took quite a bit of liberties as did the author of the books this series is based on: http://www.bernardcornwell.net/series/the-last-kingdom-series/ http://www.bernardcornwell.net/series/the-last-kingdom-serie.... I haven't actually read the books; so I can't vouch for those. But if you are interested, I can recommend Hild by Nicola Grifith which is a good read about roughly the same era.