For four months the starving Britons held out, until the true death blow - the fortress's well dried up. At that point the Vikings broke in, plundering the kingdom ... The last king of Strathclyde ...

The Last Kingdom ... is captured by Vikings, East Anglia falls to the invaders, the Midlands go next, and Alfred the Great is forced on the defensive in the last kingdom, Wessex.

and new archaeological tools have allowed us to better understand the Viking world. The Trelleborg Fortress located in Zealand, Denmark is a circular fortification divided into four quadrants.

For four months the starving Britons held out, until the true death blow - the fortress's well dried up. At that point the Vikings broke in, plundering the kingdom ... The last king of Strathclyde ...