King Edward the Confessor ruled England but was dominated by three great earls. Set in an age of violence, this story of Swegen Godwinson, heir apparent to the Earldom of Wessex, seeks to distill real life from the drama, passions, dreams, conflicts and romance implied in recorded traditions and the limited reporting of the Anglo Saxon Chronicles. Historic and imagined characters are presented for what might-have-been in times when treachery and murder were the weapons of opportunity in the unending struggles for power. England's freemen waited and wondered, apprehensive of an ever-threatening Norman feudalism and a return of the still-dangerous Scandinavian Vikings.
