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God's Viking: Harald Hardrada - The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 (Hardcover)
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God's Viking: Harald Hardrada - The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 (Hardcover)
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Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of seven
feet of English soil in that year of fateful change, 1066\. But
Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that
spanned decades and continents. Thus, prior to forcibly occupying
the Norwegian throne, Harald had an interesting (and lucrative)
career in the Varangian Guard, and he remains unquestionably the
most notable of all the Varangians who served the Byzantine
emperors: in the latter employment he saw active service in the
Aegean, Sicily, Italy, Anatolia, Syria, Palestine and Bulgaria,
while in Constantinople he was the hired muscle behind a palace
revolution. A man of war, his reign in Norway was to be taken up
with a wasteful, vicious and ultimately futile conflict against
Denmark, a kingdom (like England) he believed was his to rule. We
follow Harald s life from Stiklestad, where aged fifteen he fought
alongside his half-brother king Olaf, through his years as a
mercenary in Russia and Byzantium, then back to Norway, ending with
his death in battle in England.
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