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Harald Hardrada

Harald Hardrada

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Exile, mercenary, Viking king. Harald Hardrada, 'Thunderbolt of the North', fought his way from Norway to Byzantium, from the streets of Constantinople to the battlefields of Sicily. He married a princess, blinded an emperor, and nearly conquered England.


Today, Dr Wayne Bartlett joins us to tell the astonishing story of the last great Viking, a man who shook the medieval world before meeting his end at Stamford Bridge in 1066.


Wayne's book is called "Thunderbolt of the North: Harald Hardrada, Viking King".


Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.


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