Dan Snow
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15,398 appearances
106 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard today
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This European champion dispatched the English.
It was brutal.
It said there were so many English corpses you could walk across the marshy ground without getting your feet wet.
Survivors jumped into the ooze, they
waded across the marches if they could.
They threw their weapons aside.
They sprinted if they could, they crawled when they couldn't.
The armies of the north were smashed and scattered.
York was at Hadrada's mercy.
The city leaders were forced to swear an oath to him as king,
and acknowledge Tostig as their new Earl.
The north of England really was effectively harders.
But Haudrada and Tostik didn't
Immediately take up residence in York.
Instead, they'd go back to their ships, they'd reorganise, they'd recover, they'd replenish, and they demanded that hostages would be sent to them as a token of submission.
No hostages meant the Vikings would return and lay waste to the city.
These hostages should be sent out in five days.
The meeting place, the rendezvous, was just west of York, a place where roads converged and there was a bridge across the river, a place known as Stamford Bridge.
Now, way back down in the south of England, King Harold had been sitting on the coast waiting for a different invasion, one from Normandy, not Norway.
He'd received intelligence reports that Duke William was assembling a fleet and recruiting mercenaries and adventurers and treasure seekers far and wide.
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