Dan Snow
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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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That one berserk Viking, an enormous warrior
Held the bridge himself.
An axe wielding monster held back the entire English advance on that narrow bridge.
He saw off dozens, perhaps forty Englishmen.
Before an enterprising soldier clambled into a barrel or a container or something, and drifted it under the bridge, and stabbed up into his unprotected groin through the slats of the bridge, he was transfixed from crotch to chest
It's a great story.
And it might just be true.
There were certainly other places to cross there realistically.
They weren't all going to use that one bridge.
There were fords as well as bridges.
I waded across one of the fords last summer.
It was a little deeper than I'd been led to expect, but I was still just about standing all the way.
At some stage, one of the sources tell us there was a pause, and I'm assuming it was here.
And it says that Harold, King Harold, rode forward alone.
And he talked to his brother, he he offered Tostig back his elder if he changed sides.
And Tostig shouted back, asking what Hadrada would get.
And King Harold said he'd get six feet of English earth for a grave.
Almore.
As you're a slightly taller, man.
Then
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