Changes

This season uses historical events, but they are most likely occurred quite differently than how they were depicted. While that was true for earlier seasons, this season seems to take more liberties to guess what key characters were doing. This is both partly out of necessity and for artistic reasons. The amount of accurate and in-depth information about this time period is extremely limited. Still, we do know that the period covered in season 4 is a very important part of English history. The season shows that the Anglo-Saxons finally begin to dominate England and take key lands back from the Norse and Danes, while defending against continued threats. Alfred's system of fortified places begins to payoff in defending Anglo-Saxon lands while buying time for the Anglo-Saxon forces to become stronger so that they can launch offensives and counter-offensives against Viking forces. After the 910s, Wessex and the English were on often dictated battle with the offensiveVikings, before ultimately uniting England for the first time in 927 by Æthelstan, who is the son of Edward.