Wessex the ensuing Norman Conquest of England, and as the Norman kings soon did away with the great earldoms of the late Anglo-Saxon period, 1066 marks the extinction of Wessex as a political unit. From the second edition (1989) of the "Oxford English Dictionary": Wessex 1. The name of a kingdom in south-west England in Anglo-Saxon times, used by Thomas Hardy as the name of the county in which his stories are set (corresponding approximately to Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire) and since used as a name for south-west England or this part of it. Wessex is often symbolised by a
Yuri Nikitin (author) short stories can be found in English on the web, e. g. "Sisyphus" translated by David Schwab. In 2013, a group of Nikitin’s fans, with the author’s consent, translated into English "The Holy Grail" (title changed to "The Grail of Sir Thomas") and offered it as a free e-book on a range of online SFF forums. As of June 2014, the English versions of three novels by Yury Nikitin ("In the Very Beginning", "The Grail of Sir Thomas", "The Secret of Stonehenge") are available as e-books in major online retailers. Yuri Nikitin (author) Yuri Aleksandrovich Nikitin (), born November 30,