Harald Hardrada also had the support of Tostig, who was Harold Godwinson’s brother. The two brothers had fallen out. Tostig had been the ruler of Northumbria since 1055, but people rebelled ...

Harald Sigurdsson was born into this world about the year ... At the battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September he was killed and his army was annihilated by English king Harold Godwinson, who would ...

If published as a novel, the life of Harald Hardrada (c.?1015-1066) could quite easily be dismissed as highly improbable, yet, as one critic wrote many years ago in Amra, a publication devoted to ...

The 1066 battle of Stamford Bridge between Viking warlord Harald Hardrada and King Harold of England was said to be so violent that a giant mountain of bones remained a half century later.

Harald Hardrada also had the support of Tostig, who was Harold Godwinson’s brother. The two brothers had fallen out. Tostig had been the ruler of Northumbria since 1055, but people rebelled ...