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Old 08-05-20, 07:13 PM   #3381
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Default Harald vs Harold: 1066

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910 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.
I thought Harald Hardrada's defeat at Stamford bridge in 1066 by Harold of England was the last major Viking army??!!
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The battle has traditionally been presented as symbolising the end of the Viking Age, although major Scandinavian campaigns in Britain and Ireland occurred in the following decades, such as those of King Sweyn Estrithson of Denmark in 1069–1070 and King Magnus Barefoot of Norway in 1098 and 1102–1103. At Stamford bridge: As given in the Chronicles, pursued by the English army, some of the fleeing Norsemen drowned whilst crossing rivers. So many died in an area so small that the field was said to have been still whitened with bleached bones 50 years after the battle. The losses the Norwegians had suffered were so severe that only 24 ships from the fleet of over 300 were needed to carry the survivors away...
The Viking leader, Harald, learns ''the arrow of his ways''... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge
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