
390 – Stamford Bridge
The British History Podcast
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Harold Pedrata and the English
The english were in the same heat wave as the norse, though for many of them, i am sure that the heat was the last thing on their minds. And ferd's men weren't warriors. Tey were farmers and craftsmen who were handed basic weaponry and told by their local lord or religious leader that they would have to fight. But this army wasn't just ferdsman. Harold godwin son had also called up his huss garls. These were men who were indoctrinated into a warrior culture from a young age,. seasoned fighters who shared a lot in common with the ancestral anglo saxon hearthmarad. I can only imagine what kind of dread they
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