While trained as a boatbuilder, Edgar’s ingenuity eventually leads to bridge-building and even cathedral-building, which, throughout the novel, helps transform Dreng’s Ferry into Kingsbridge. This forces Edgar and his mother and brothers to start a new life in a dreadful hamlet called Dreng’s Ferry. The raid destroys the village of Combe, the home of Edgar, who is the son of a boatbuilder who dies in the attack. While The Evening And The Morning ends well before Swein’s conquest, the Viking attack in the opening chapter is the inciting event that sets the story in motion. The end of the latter century brought a new wave of attacks that eventually would lead to the Danish King, Swein Forkbeard, finally conquering England. The Evening And The Morning takes place at the end of the tenth century, and it all begins with a Viking raid.Īs fans of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Tales know well, the Vikings plagued England throughout the ninth and tenth centuries. But what makes each book in the series different is the period in which they are set. Many of the novels’ elements are similar to those in The Pillars Of The Earth and World Without End, including several of the heroes and villains. The Evening And The Morning tells the tale of how the fictional town of Kingsbridge came to be. Hot on the heels of finishing Ken Follett’s World Without End, I devoured The Evening And The Morning, the gripping prequel to The Pillars of the Earth.
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