Harald Hardrada was the greatest warrior of his age. Wounded, aged
15, at Stiklestad (1030), the most savage battle ever fought on
Norwegian soil, he went on to fight in Russia, Byzantium, Sicily,
the Balkans, Asia Minor and Jerusalem. He returned to Norway in
1045 to contest and win the crown and was killed in the battle of
Stamford Bridge in 1066. A man of ferocious energy, burning
ambition, cunning, cruelty and vengefulness, and a man enormously
attractive to women, Harald is a larger-than-life figure and one
that has fascinated the poet Kevin Crossley-Holland. In this
sequence of short poems, he assumes the persona of Harald during
his formative years in Byzantium and writes about his engagement
with warfare, leadership and love. Passionate, terse and often
witty, these poems - revelations rather than narratives - contrast
the glittering hard-edged northern world, still half in thrall to
the old Norse gods, with the softer, more seductive south.
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