Dan Snow
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15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
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And that was not all, not by a long stretch, because to the north of England there was a man who believed that he should also rule.
By right of succession
And by might of arms.
He was already a king, a throne he'd won at the tip of a spear.
He was King Harald of Norway.
Known as Hadrada.
The hard ruler.
Hardrada was the thunderbolt of the north.
He's said to be seven feet tall, he was certainly a giant of a man.
He'd been exiled from his native land as a boy, really, and he'd found fame and fortune fighting in the east, along the rivers of Russia and Ukraine, for the Byzantine Empire against its galaxy of enemies.
He fought in the Crimea.
It's said that he reduced eighty Arab strongholds across the Middle East.
He fought on the Tigris.
Russian Euphrates, he helped Christians conquer Sicily, he served in southern Italy, he rose to command the Varangian guard in Byzantium, a kind of Praetorian guard, which protected emperors or killed and deposed them.
He certainly did both during his career.
He seems to have visited Jerusalem.
He smashed a revolt in Bulgaria and took the nickname Bulgar Burner.
When he returned to Scandinavia it was a case of the old cliche, the exiled prince, grown to manhood to reclaim his patrony.
His ships were unbalanced because of the amount of gold in their holds.
He had a Ukrainian princess for a wife.
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