The 1066 battle of Stamford Bridge between Viking warlord Harald Hardrada and King Harold of England was said to be so violent that a giant mountain of bones remained a half century later.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, a ferocious, unarmoured Viking berserker ... sail for England. The Battle of Stamford Bridge was the second September battle in 1066, between King Harold ...

the Viking king of Norway, and Harold Godwinson's own brother Tostig, invade the north of England. 1066: The Battle of Stamford Bridge (3/6) video1066: The Battle of Stamford Bridge (3/6 ...

For the common folk of England, life in the eleventh century was often “poor, nasty, brutish and short,” as armies of Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Vikings ... a Norse invasion at Stamford Bridge (25 September ...