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shadowplay · Oct 25, 2012

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W|M · Oct 25, 2012

Through an old treaty between Edmund Ironside and Harthacanute, Harald Hardrada had a claim on the English crown, and when the embittered Tostig (brother of the English king Harold II) came forward with an invasion plot, Harald was well up for it. He put together a massive fleet and invaded.

In the famous precursor to the Battle of Hastings, Harold Hardrada's forces met Harold II's at Stamfordbridge. Typically, the huge old warrior was in the thick of things, but early in the battle his luck ran out and he was cut down. His sole gain on English soil proved to be the seven feet of earth they laid him in. The weakened Saxon forces rushed south to their defeat, and the story of one of history's greatest chancers came to an end in 1066.