
390 – Stamford Bridge
The British History Podcast
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Hadrata's Conquest of the Northumbrians
The battle of fulfer gate was one of the longest battles in English history. A great mountain of dead men's bones still lies there, and bears witness to the terrible slaughter on both sides. It isn't known how he fell, nor who killed him or how. But as the english worked to clear the battlefield of the dead, literally thousands upon thousands of dead, they found a man who fit his description. And once they saw that he had a warp between his shoulders, they knew they'd found him, the king's brother,. The man who had brought all this ruin upon them is believed to have been buried at yorkminster.
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