Dan Snow
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first heard Dec 2024
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Haldrada had landed and demanded all of their wealth, all their goods and riches.
Quite straightforward, and they said no.
Hadrada now needed to make an example of them.
Exemplary violence, folks.
He made huge bundles of wood, he set fire to them and rolled them down onto the town from the slopes above.
It burnt.
And the fleeing townsfolk were cut down as they escaped.
Hadrada ordered the entire population put to the sword.
The settlement was annihilated.
Scarborough ceased to exist.
It doesn't appear in that great Royal Survey of England, the Doomsday Book, compiled about a generation later.
And they didn't miss a trick those guys.
Every single pig was included in that.
So it was gone.
The land was wasted all right.
One historian has got a great crow about Hardrada, which I always think is probably the most euphemistic thing I've ever read.
The historian says his personal morality appears not to have matched the Christian ideal.
Say that again.
On sailed this rather ambiguous character, south into the beautiful Humber Estuary.
In its sheltered waters, Haldrada's force, I imagine, would have shipped their oars.
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