Dan Snow
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106 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
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That's remembered as Ore Storm.
But it wasn't enough, and the English eventually pushed them back.
The army reeled south towards their ships.
You can imagine a situation where the army just splinters, it starts disintegrating.
It was a route.
Bodies lay heaped.
It was said years later that piles of bones could still be seen whitening in the sun.
Among them, as well as Hardrada.
Tostic.
The first of Harold's family to be killed in battle that autumn.
But not the last.
At some stage the English troops are reigned in.
Must have been exhausting.
Harold put a stop to the fighting and allowed a few survivors to return home in their ships, having sworn oaths never again to attack England.
Haldrada's sixteen year old son Olaf
who joined the expedition with such high hopes.
He'd remained with the ships, and he led the survivors home.
Just twenty four vessels sailed out of Rickle.
of the hundreds in which they derived.
Just a week or two earlier.
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