Known of: part of the Viking invasions of England
Location: Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Result: Decisive English victory
Unique unit in the game: Viking berserker - A later folk story has it that a giant Norse axeman blocked the narrow crossing, and single-handedly held up the entire Saxon army. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that this axeman cut down up to 40 Englishmen. He was only defeated when an English soldier floated under the bridge in a half-barrel and thrust his spear through the laths in the bridge, mortally wounding the axeman.
Sides | Norman | England |
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Leader | Harald Hardrada Tostig Godwinson |
Harold Godwinson |
Army | 6000 | 15 000 |