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1066 - French horsepower broke England

Peter Nicolai Arbo England 5th January 1066 , The English king Edward the confessor and then earl Harold Godwinson was proclaimed king at Westminster Abbey the day after the 6th. Edward the confessor  had promised both Harold and William "Bastard" of Normandy the seat of the throne before he died. Both men were distant relatives to the childless Edward the confessor. When William heard of it he quickly raised an army. Harald Hardrada also claimed the English throne and he was faster than William the bastard and on 8th September,1066  240-300 Viking ships landed on the beaches of Scarborough and began an attempt to gain the English throne. 20th September,1066  Battle of Fulford : Harald Hardrada defeated the English earls Edwin and Walther. 2 days later Harald Hardrada attacked and conquered York. 24th September,1066 Harold Godwinson arrived after marching from London. 25th September,1066 Battle of Stamford bridge Battle of Stamford bridge Harald...
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873 - Rodulf Haraldsson`s failed viking raid

Demanding tax from the Frisians

England
Halfdan & Guthrum,raided Mercia and captured Repton. Halfdan gave the king of East Francia Louis the German a sword with gold.
France
Hallstein sailed to Angers to plunder, but when the Vikings reached the town they found it abandoned. The inhabitants had packed up and left when they heard that the Vikings were on their way and in autumn 873 the Franks and the Britons together laid siege to Angers. Monk Reginos’ chronicle relates that the battles lasted day and night and that the Franks had brought siege engines to break down the town walls.
Ireland
Ivar the boneless died of a hideous disease. 
His son Bardr mac Imair  and Oistin mac Amlaib raided kingdom of Munster
Netherlands
Dorestad was plundered again and in June 873 Rodulf Haraldsson(Rodulf,Rolf) sailed a fleet into Louis the Germans kingdom and demanded tax in a county in Friesland, which belonged to a local count Albdag

The Frisians answered that they only would pay tax to Louis the German and his sons, and Rodulf Haraldsson answered "I will kill all men and take their belongings and enslave women and children".

The Frisians won the battle and Rodulf Haraldsson and 800 vikings were killed, the rest hid in a barn. After taking advice from a Christian Norman, which had lived in Frisia, the Frisians took hostages of the surviving vikings in the barn and made them march to their ships.


The vikings delivered all their stolen money in return for the hostages freedom and they swore an oath that they would never return and they sailed away quick and without their dead leader Rodulf Haraldsson.
(The Annals of Fulda)


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Location: Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands

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  1. Hans Faber25 May 2022 at 13:12

    https://frisiacoasttrail.blog/2021/02/21/frisia-a-viking-graveyard/

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