In the triumvirate of 1066, William of Normandy, Harald Hardrada, and Harold Godwinson, the latter has above all endured as one of the great heroes of English history. But how did he become the ...

Last season’s contest – possibly the most one-sided ‘Battle of Stamford Bridge’ since Harald Hardrada ... England’s last Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson) – proved to be the nadir ...

from the likes of Norway’s King Harald Hardrada and Harold II’s own brother, the Earl of Northumbria Tostig Godwinson. But the most famous and bloody of these incursions was what became known ...

The archaeological investigations - carried out in and around the village of Bosham, near Chichester, West Sussex - has revealed that Harold ... Norwegian king (Harald Hardrada); Edgar, an ...

Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex; Harald Hardrada, King of Norway; and William, Duke of Normandy. Edward named Harold Godwinson as his successor on his deathbed, but the newly crowned King Harold ...

Before there was a feature film or a book, there was Crockett Johnson. By A.O. Scott “How does Harold draw himself?” my friend Noam wondered. Noam is 4, so he has a taste for the kind of ...

It was a battle between the English army under King Harold Godwinson and Harald’s Norwegian forces. Harald was struck in the throat by an arrow and killed early in the battle. Harald Hardrada ...

But although Harold would go on to defeat Harald Hardrada’s army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Godwinson himself would lose his life and his crown just three weeks later, when Wiliam of ...

elected Harold Godwinson, who became Harold II. Margaret would have seen the new king march off to the north to fight the Danish King Harald Hardrada. At Stamford Bridge the English were ...