Dan Snow
speaker
15,398 appearances
106 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard yesterday
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fluttering overhead.
Was the banner of the King of England, a dragon?
And King Harold's personal banner.
A fighting man.
The English had the Vikings where they wanted them.
They launched themselves down the gentle slope towards the river.
The Vikings caught on that west bank, so trapped on that side of the river?
Well they were doomed straight away.
They were caught between their enemy and the river.
Haldrado was on the east bank, he did some quick thinking.
If you ordered a general retreat, his men would lose cohesion and they'd be picked off as they raced for the ships.
Instead?
They must make a stand.
He sent messengers off to the rest of his army, back there at the ships,
And told them to come and help.
And then he tried to gather the troops he did have together to hold the English off until they arrived.
The English tore through the Vikings on that west bank.
And then it was time to cross the river.
And that moment gives us our best known story about the battle.
The tale goes it was written down much later, but it's a good tale.
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