The program features LaVerne Christianson. Appearing in traditional costume, Christianson will tell the story of Harald Siggurdson Hardrada, the last Viking king. The story begins with the Battle ...

His short reign gave his descendents, who included Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, a claim to the English throne. When Harold Godwinson became king of England on the death of Edward the Confessor ...

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 ...

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 ...