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The Earls of Mercia Side Stories

The Earls of Mercia Side Stories expand the main saga through figures whose lives intersect with Mercia's ruling family and the Danish conquest of England. The books focus on warriors, royal relatives and political survivors including Wulfstan, Sweyn, Cnut and Estrid, providing additional perspectives on war, kinship and power in eleventh-century England and Scandinavia.

Reading order

Books in this series (4 books)

Swein cover

#2 – Swein

M J Porter

Before his encounter with Ealdorman Leofwine on his fateful trip to Shetland, King Swein first had to wrestle Denmark from an overmighty father and make his own name as a warrior of great renown. This side story to the Earls of Mercia series tells of the…

Cnut cover

#3 – Cnut

M J Porter

To gain what he wanted, what he felt he was owed, he would do anything, even if it meant breaking his oaths to a woman he loved and the mother of his son. Swein, King of Denmark, and briefly England, lies dead, his son ousted from…

Lady Estrid cover

#4 – Lady Estrid

M J Porter

Daughter, Sister, Duchess, Aunt. Queen. United by blood and marriage. Divided by seas. Torn apart by ambition. Lady Estrid Sweinsdottir has returned from Kiev, her first husband dead after only a few months of marriage. Her future will be decided by her father, King Swein of…