McKay has stormed his way through a four-book Robin Hood series, seven Warrior Druid novels, a couple of standalones and, most recently, this, the final volume in his Alfred the Great trilogy.

He is still the only English king to be given the title ‘Great’. Alfred was in his early 20s when he became king in 871 and the defining challenge of his reign was conflict with the Vikings.

Historians believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England - Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex ...

Sometime around 870 CE, Alfred the Great was blessed with his first child, Aethelflaed. At the time, England was suffering the most aggressive Viking campaigns to have ever occurred. Fifty years ...

John Lloyd Wenberg, 92, died at the Good Samaritan Society-International Falls, in International Falls, Minn., Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013. He was born Feb. 10, 1921, in International Falls, to ...

NFL season is officially in the books, which means it's 2025 NFL Draft season. How will the early rounds unfold in April?

The Vikings’ 10th overall pick in the 2024 draft put together a terrific training camp and played very well ... can ill-afford to run out a good-not-great roster and expect to hang.

(AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have plenty of ... was “looking forward to a great future” with both Adofo-Mensah and O’Connell. During training camp, Wilf told reporters the Vikings ...

Last summer, Minnesota Vikings ... throughout camp as well. “At the same time, throughout that whole time [training camp], I do remember saying that Sam was having a great training camp and ...