All the episodes from all five seasons of the historical BBC drama centred around the wars between the Saxons and Danes during the ninth century. Alexander Dreymon stars as the warrior Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the son of a Saxon nobleman who was captured by the Danes as a child and ...All the episodes from all five seasons of the historical BBC drama centred around the wars between the Saxons and Danes during the ninth century. Alexander Dreymon stars as the warrior Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the son of a Saxon nobleman who was captured by the Danes as a child and raised by Earl Ragnar (Tobias Santelmann) as his own son.
When Ragnar is burned alive, Uhtred vows to avenge his death and to recapture his ancestral lands of Bebbanburg. Meanwhile King Alfred (David Dawson)'s health is declining and he is searching for a Christian Dane capable of succeeding him and uniting the kingdoms of England.