History Awesome / TheSaxonStories

* Father Beocca near the end of ''Lords of the North''. When Thyra attempts to kill him, he simply strolls right through the pack of her man-eating dogs without concern then exorcises her madness with a heartfelt prayer. Even Uhtred admits it was as close to a miracle that he had ever seen.

* Steapa comes back in ''The War Lord'' for one last battle; he's not only every inch the force of nature he was on the field in his youth but also far snarkier and less deferential towards just about everyone, Uhtred included. Not that Uhtred seems to mind all that much, all things considered.

* Steapa comes back in ''The War Lord'' for one last battle; he's not only every inch the force of nature he was on the field in his youth but also far snarkier and less deferential towards just about everyone, Uhtred included. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Not that Uhtred seems to mind all that much]], all things considered.

* In the ''Pagan Lord'' Uhtred finally [[spoiler: kills his Uncle]]

* Sigtryggr at the end of ''The Empty Throne''. [[spoiler:He loses a battle and an eye to Uhtred, and hands himself over as a hostage for the lives of his men. Two days later, he's riding away with Uhtred's daughter, and his blessing.]]
* Finan's utter humiliation of [[spoiler:his own brother]] in ''Warriors of the Storm''.
* ''Warriors of the Storm'' gives us another major one when [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini Supreme Haesten finally meets his end]].
* ''The Flame Bearer'' [[spoiler: has Uhtred, at long last, retake Bebbanburg]].
* [=Æ=]thelstan going full WarriorPrince at the climax of [[spoiler: ''The Flame Bearer'', killing an enemy champion in single combat]]

* Small as it is, Uhtred surviving the entire series and living to be eighty or close to.

* [=Æ=]thelstan going full WarriorPrince at the climax of [[spoiler: ''The Flame Bearer'', killing an enemy champion in single combat]]

* In ''The Flame Bearer'' [[spoiler: has Uhtred, at long last, retake Bebbanburg]].

* ''Warriors of the Storm'' gives us another major one when [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini Supreme Haesten finally meets his end]].

* ''Warriors of the Storm'' also gives us a pretty major one when [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini Supreme Haesten finally meets his end]].

* After rumors are widely circulated of his death in ''The Pagan Lord'', Uhtred gets an absolutely epic BadassBoast to a group of enemies in which he claims to have died, [[LikeABadassOutOfHell killed Nidhogg, and returned to the land of the living]].

* Sigtryggr at the end of <i>The Empty Throne</i>. [[spoiler:He loses a battle and an eye to Uhtred, and hands himself over as a hostage for the lives of his men. Two days later, he's riding away with Uhtred's daughter, and his blessing.]]

* Uhtred's son more than lives up to the family expectations - thinking of a way to capture a castle's gates on the fly and killing a Norse Warlord in his first shieldwall

* Steapa gets on for himself when after the first few seconds of their fight Uhtred realises that there is no way he can beat the giant Saxon.

* Uhtred's occasional snarking.
* Pretty much everything Father Pyrlig says.
* It is Aethelflaed's wedding. The town is packed. Uhtred and Gisela stay at a tavern / brothel that featured heavily in the earlier books in which Uhtred was often a client.
-->'''Gisela''': You never told me that the Two Cranes is a brothel.
-->'''Uhtred''': There are not many beds in Wintanceaster [Winchester] and not nearly enough for all the invited guests, so we were very lucky to find this room.
-->'''Gisela''': And they know you very well here, Uhtred.
-->'''Uhtred''': *defensively* It's a tavern as well.
* Not long before, Father Beocca tells Uhtred that the King wants to talk to him later. Uhtred is fine with this, but suggests that they talk the next day, on the grounds that he'll be drunk. Beocca complains that the King's time is limited and that Alfred wants to talk to him in the evening. Uhtred basically says, 'fine, but he'll have to talk to me drunk'.