
386 – God’s Messenger
The British History Podcast
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Tostig's Fleet Going a Viking
Tostig had long feuded with the two brothers, edwin of mercia and morcar of northumbria. He took advantage of the fact that his brother was at best on horses, while his raiders, being at sea, were much faster. And so they raced north up the coast of england, and it wasn't long before they made landfall at the humber. It was time to get some payback against those people who'd spurned him and led to his exile. But as i love a good sandwich as much as the next, no sandwich is worth dying over, not even when it's city sized.
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