Dan Snow
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first heard Dec 2024
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Maybe the memories of terrible defeats at the hands of English still loomed.
He would sit this one out and try and make the most of the aftermath.
My sense of it is that he sort of made a contribution.
to the expedition that was polite.
It was too small to really annoy the English if the English won, but it was large enough to carry favour with Hardrada if he emerged victorious.
The fleet crossed into English waters, and the first week of September it arrived at the mouth of the Tyne.
Perhaps three hundred and fifty ships, perhaps as many as five hundred with the little transport vessels and things.
The Vikings were back.
In force.
Interestingly, the fleet would have sailed right past Holy Island.
The sight of that fateful Viking raid on Lindisfarne.
In the seven hundred nineties, which had heralded the onset of the Viking Age.
Almost three hundred years before.
They work their way down the coast, making use of the excellent shelter provided by the great rivers of eastern England.
First the Tyne, where Haldrada probably went ashore, a striking figure striding at the beach.
Above him unfurled the land waster, his special banner, white with a black, mythical raven.
That flag had been a harbinger of terrible violence.
It had flown from the Tyne to the Tigris, and it meant that blood would flow.
The people of Scarborough may have provided that first blood.
They made the extraordinary decision to try and resist.
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