What disease did Alfred the Great have?

Background. King Alfred the Great died on the 26th October 899, probably through complications arising from Crohn's Disease, an illness which forces the body's immune system to attack the linings of the intestines.
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What sickness does Alfred in Vikings have?

After the passage of some time Alfred developed an externally visible peri-anal condition, an illness that Asser says that the king had 'from the first flowering of his youth'.
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What was the sickness in the last kingdom?

When the pair meet as arranged at Uhtred's trading post of Rumcofa, Eadith discovers that Aethelflaed's disease – the canker – is too advanced to cure.
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Is The Last Kingdom historically accurate?

The Last Kingdom does a good job with King Alfred and his family. However, while Uhtred may be primarily fictional, most of the other characters on the show existed in reality. These include King Alfred, who dominated the first three seasons, the first two o which were coproduced by the BBC.
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Is The Last Kingdom based on a true story?

Yes, The Last Kingdom is largely based on real-life characters and events. First and foremost, The Last Kingdom is based on the aforementioned Saxon Stories literary series by Cornwell. However, many of the events and characters featured in the series are based on real happenings.
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Who Was Alfred the Great?



What disease did Ivar the Boneless have?

Based on clues given in historical accounts, Hirst decided the Vikings incarnation of Ivar the Boneless would have brittle bone disease (AKA osteogenesis imperfecta or OI).
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What was Aethelflaed illness?

In The Last Kingdom Season 5, Aethelflaed's life comes to a tragic end. Just like Aethelflaed's fate in book 10 of Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories, upon which The Last Kingdom is based, Aethelflaed died of breast cancer.
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What happened to Aethelred in real life?

In early January 871, Æthelred was defeated at the Battle of Reading. Four days later, he scored a victory in the Battle of Ashdown, but this was followed by two defeats at Basing and Meretun. He died shortly after Easter.
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What is Mercia called today?

Mercia originally comprised the border areas (modern Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and northern West Midlands and Warwickshire) that lay between the districts of Anglo-Saxon settlement and the Celtic tribes they had driven to the west.
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Did King Alfred have health issues?

Background. King Alfred the Great died on the 26th October 899, probably through complications arising from Crohn's Disease, an illness which forces the body's immune system to attack the linings of the intestines.
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Was Brida a real person?

Brida in 871 Brida was born in East Anglia to an Anglo-Saxon family, and she was taken captive during the Great Heathen Army's invasion of England in 866.
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How old is Uhtred meant to be?

At the beginning of the books Uhtred is 9 years old (12 in the series) so by the end of book two Uhtred is 21 years old and in the TV show, 24.
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Do Uhtred and Aethelflaed have babies?

Uhtred has three children in total, however only his son Uhtred (Finn Elliot) and daughter Stiorra (Ruby Hartley) are primarily focused on. It was revealed at the start of Season 3 that Uhtred had a second son and third child, Osbert, with Gisela (Peri Baumeister), however, she sadly died during childbirth.
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Why do Ivars eyes go blue?

Ivar the boneless, has blue eyes because he's suffering from 'brittle bone disease' named "Osteogenesis imperfecta" which is characterised by a triad of blue sclera (white portion of the eye), fragile bones and conductive hearing loss.
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Can Ivar on the Vikings get an erection?

The biggest surprise was that Ivar managed to get an erection to have sex.
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How long does someone with osteogenesis imperfecta live?

The median survival time in the OI cohort was 72.4 years for males (compared to 81.5 years in the reference population) and 77.4 for females (compared to 84.5 in the reference population).
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Did Uhtred and Brida have a child?

Something like that.” Osbert is Gisela and Uhtred's youngest child, and Lord Uhtred's third son (his first with Saxon wife Mildrith died as an infant, and Brida's pregnancy by Uhtred was sadly miscarried).
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Who is Uhtred's greatest love?

Uhtred is still very much in love with Lady Aethelflaed (Millie Brady). He is Lord of Rumcofa, which is a border town of Mercia (the land over which Aethelflaed rules).
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How many wives has Uhtred had?

Uhtred married three times, each marriage produced children.
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How old is Uhtred's daughter?

Stiorra was born in 892, which means that she is approximately 19 at the end of The Last Kingdom season 4.
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How tall is Uhtred in the books?

However, in The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, Uhtred has dirty blond hair and supposedly stands over six feet tall.
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Who is Uhtred's hidden son?

Osbert is Uhtred's son on The Last Kingdom

Granted, the last time we saw Osbert he was a baby. This was back in season 3, when Uhtred returned to his home to find that his wife Gisela had died giving birth to their new son. Hild helped deliver the baby and broke the bad news to Uhtred.
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Do Saxons still exist?

While the continental Saxons are no longer a distinctive ethnic group or country, their name lives on in the names of several regions and states of Germany, including Lower Saxony (which includes central parts of the original Saxon homeland known as Old Saxony), Saxony in Upper Saxony, as well as Saxony-Anhalt (which ...
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Was father Beocca a real person?

Beocca (died 910) was the Court Chaplain of Wessex from 871 to 899, serving under King Alfred the Great.
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