Vectorized version of w:Image:British kingdoms c 800.gif, based on Image:Uk-map.svg (both images are in public domain), Public Domain, Mercia (Aethelred and Aethelflaed’s kingdom)īy Sakurambo – self-made.Here is a list of the seven kingdoms below: King Alfred of Wessex defeated a Viking army at Edington in 876, resulting in a treaty where the Danes controlled northern and eastern Britain but Wessex remained in the hands of Alfred and his descendants. The Last Kingdom is set in the late ninth century, when a series of Viking invasions overwhelmed most of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms except for one: Wessex.
