10 burning questions for The Last Kingdom season 5
10. Where is Uhtred’s youngest son?
This bugged me throughout The Last Kingdom season 4. We know that Uhtred has four children. The first (with Mildreth) died during the first season. The other three are children he had with Gisela. Two of those children were mentioned and seen throughout the fourth season.
As much as I loved seeing the children, I kept asking about the third son (the second from Gisela). At no point did Uhtred mention his youngest son. Nobody brought him up. It’s like he’s just been completely forgotten about.
Is this an inconsistency in the story? Did the writers forget about him? That’s unlikely. The writers are good. Sure, there have been some timeline inconsistencies or problems here and there (how did Aethelflaed go from a child to a teen during the first season so quickly?) but characters haven’t just been forgotten about. So, what happened?
My only theory is that he’s with Sihtric’s family. Sihtric’s wife and children weren’t mentioned or seen either. Maybe we can believe that Uhtred’s son is with them.
The only other theory that is somewhat plausible is that the child died. I’m sure Uhtred or Hild would have mentioned this had it happened off-screen. We could look at the book storyline for an idea of the youngest son but there are elements of Uhtred’s family storyline that have changed up to this point so that doesn’t really help!