Thorkell the Tall
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Tall Viking warlord who switched sides many times
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentDominic SandbrookThe Rest Is History · 552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1) · 8:54 · Mar 2025
…So he served with this bloke, Thorkell the Tall, who we talked about last time. And he actually was one of the people who ended up as a mercenary fighting for Æthelred the Unready. Yeah. He's the guy who supposedly pulls down London Bridge. Exactly. Thereby inspiring the nursery rhyme.…
Dominic SandbrookThe Rest Is History · 549. The Road to 1066: Revenge of the Vikings (Part 2) · 21:23 · Mar 2025
…I have to say, there's an absolutely brilliant book on this that I read a few years ago by a Norwegian historian called Tora Skaer called The Wolf Age. And it does this in basically kind of week by week narrative. And it just goes on and on and on. Of all of these conquests. And one of the key characters is a guy called Thorkell the Tall. And he is very tal…
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