Tom Shippey: Unfortunate Ecgfrith
THE MERCIAN CHRONICLES completes a trilogy by Max Adams that began with The King in the North, centred on King Oswald of Northumbria (r. 634-42), and went on to Ælfred’s Britain, about King Ælfred of Wessex (r. 871-99). Its focus is King Offa (r. 757-96) …