The Battle of Scarborough

Hedrota disembarked and proceeded on foot to demonstrate brutally what would be suffered by those who refused him. As he marched, his ships waited at the mouth of the humber. However, this tactic would have also slowed down his advance. And snory tells us that the english used that time to assemble a force at wolderness peninsula. If the invading force was split in two, the northumbrians may have realized that fighting hadrada before he had the chance to rejoin his ships would be their best chance at stopping this invasion. And sure enough, we're told there was a battle. But what we can glean from it is that the english may have underestimated the