Harald Hardrada
eBook - ePub

Harald Hardrada

The Warrior's Way

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Harald Hardrada

The Warrior's Way

About this book

One of the greatest medieval warriors Harald Sigurdsson, nicknamed Hardrada (Harold the Ruthless or hard ruler) fell in battle in an attempt to snatch the crown of England. The spectacular and heroic career which ended at Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire on 25 September 1066 had taken Harald from Norway to Russia and Constantinople and saw him gain a kingdom by force and determination rather than right or inheritance. He was one of the most feared rulers in Europe and was first and foremost a professional soldier, who acquired great wealth by plunder and showed no mercy to those he conquered. ' Harald Hardrada: The Warrior's Way ' reconstructs a military career spanning three and a half decades and involving encounters with an extraordinary range of allies and enemies in sea-fights and land battles, sieges and viking raids across a variety of theatres of war. John Marsden's superbly researched and powerfully written account takes us from the lands of the Norsemen to Byzantium and the Crusades and makes clear how England moved decisively from three hundred years of exposure to the Scandinavian orbit to a stronger identification with continental Europe following the Norman invasion.

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Information

Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780750942904
eBook ISBN
9780752474441
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
  7. Maps
  8. Sagas, Skalds and Soldiering An introduction to a military biography
  9. I. Stiklestad
  10. II. Varangian
  11. III. Hardrada
  12. IV. Stamford Bridge
  13. Land-ravager An afterword from west-over-sea
  14. Genealogies
  15. Notes and References
  16. Select Bibliography