Appearing in traditional costume, Christianson will tell the story of Harald Siggurdson Hardrada, the last Viking ... for the Empress Zoe of the Byzantine Empire and his failed attempt to take ...

Harald’s mother tongue, Old Norse, is close to the language still spoken today in Iceland. The epithet “Hardrada” variously translated ... fighting for the Empire in Bulgaria, Sicily, Italy, and ...

If published as a novel, the life of Harald Hardrada (c.?1015-1066) could quite easily be dismissed as highly improbable, yet, as one critic wrote many years ago in Amra, a publication devoted to ...

Only six days after the Battle of Fulford the English forces led by King Harold won an astonishing victory against the Norwegian forces of Harald Hardrada. The outcome was a decisive victory for ...