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The Battle of Stamford Bridge ( Old English: Gefeoht æt Stanfordbrycge) took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes how a giant Norse axeman wielding what was most likely a Dane axe, single-handedly cut down up to 40 Englishman during the battle of Stamford bridge. Supposedly, he was only defeated when an English soldier floated under the bridge in a barrel and thrust his spear through the planks, mortally wounding the axeman.
Haraldr Sigurðarson (wearing crown) fighting at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, as depicted by Matthew Paris in the Life of St Edward the Confessor in the mid-thirteenth century Cambridge University Library MS Ee.3.59, f. 32v, roughly coeval with the composition of Haralds saga. Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar is an Old Icelandic king's saga ...
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Battles/wars. Battle of France. Operation Barbarossa. Battle in Berlin. Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 – 24 October 1996) was the German Nazi national leader ( Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth ( Hitlerjugend) from 1940 to 1945, when the war ended. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsleiter .
Battle of Stamford Bridge by Peter Nicolai Arbo. Soon after they became Earls the brothers accompanied the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson on the ill-fated expedition to England in 1066. Paul and Erlend were with Harald's son Olaf Kyrre, guarding the ships at Riccall, when the battle of Stamford Bridge was fought.
Eystein Orre ( Old Norse: Eysteinn Orri; died 25 September 1066) was a Norwegian noble who was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. The Battle of Stamford Bridge as depicted by Matthew Paris. Eystein was betrothed to King Harald's daughter by Elisiv of Kiev, Maria and according to Heimskringla was "best beloved by the king of all ...
Harald was only fifteen when the battle of Stiklestad took place. He became King of Norway in 1047, until his death in a failed invasion of England at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. The authenticity of the battle as a historical event is subject to question. Contemporary sources say the king was murdered.