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Historical person
1015–1066
Harald III of Norway was the Norwegian king known as Harald Hardrada. After service in Kievan Rus and the Byzantine Varangian Guard, he seized the Norwegian throne and later invaded England, dying at Stamford Bridge in 1066.
Griff Hosker’s Hastings places Harald III of Norway within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Griff Hosker’s Housecarl places Harald III of Norway within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and court politics and dynastic power. Other novels featuring Harald III of Norway include Griff Hosker’s Conquest, Griff Hosker’s Outlaw, Griff Hosker’s Rebellion, and Griff Hosker’s Treachery.
Series
The Wolves of Odin series follows Halfdan and the crew of the Sea Wolf from eleventh-century Scandinavia into the interconnected world of Byzantium, Italy, Normandy, England and Norway. Their blood feud begins amid Christianisation but soon becomes a wider search for wealth, honour and belonging among rulers who…
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Conquest follows England after the Norman victory of 1066. The books use Hastings, rebellion, occupation and the consolidation of William the Conqueror’s rule to show how conquest continues long after a single battle is won. The series is strongest as a post-Conquest saga about dispossession, resistance, new lordship…
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The Aelfraed trilogy follows Saxon survivors through the violent aftermath of 1066. Beginning before the Battle of Hastings and continuing through resistance, outlawry and exile, the series uses the collapse of Harold Godwinson’s England to follow housecarls and rebels forced to decide whether to keep fighting, submit to…
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