Qualla: Battle of Fulford https://qualla.com/battle-of-fulford en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Fulford https://qualla.com/battle-of-fulford Battle of Fulford: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-fulford/ Five days. That is how long Harald Hardrada's victory at Fulford lasted before everything reversed. On the marshy flats south of York, on 20 September 1066, the King of Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson smashed the army of the northern earls Edwin and Morcar. It was the opening battle of a year that would see three kings claim the English throne and only one survive. Standing today on the modest rise between the River Ouse and the soggy lowland the Saxons called Fordland, it is hard to picture some 16,000 men shoving each other into a swamp - and harder still to imagine how decisively this little-remembered fight reshaped what came next.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/4/battle-of-fulford-wp/gcx4-battle-of-fulford-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Fulford: Three Claimants, One Throne https://qualla.com/battle-of-fulford/ Edward the Confessor died childless on 5 January 1066. By nightfall on 6 January, Harold Godwinson had been crowned at Westminster - a fast move, possibly a desperate one, because three other men also believed they had a claim. William, Duke of Normandy, had been promised the thr...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/4/battle-of-fulford-wp/gcx4-battle-of-fulford-three-claimants-one-throne.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Fulford: The Marsh and the River https://qualla.com/battle-of-fulford/ Hardrada and Tostig sailed up the Humber and the Ouse with a fleet of around 300 ships, beaching at Riccall. From there they marched on York. Edwin and Morcar chose to fight before the Vikings reached the walls, drawing up between the River Ouse on their right and a wide marsh on...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/4/battle-of-fulford-wp/gcx4-battle-of-fulford-the-marsh-and-the-river.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Fulford: Five Days to Stamford Bridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-fulford/ By late afternoon the army of the north had been cut to pieces. Edwin and Morcar survived but their forces were broken. York surrendered, on the condition that the city itself not be plundered, and the Vikings withdrew east to Stamford Bridge to receive hostages. They never got t...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/4/battle-of-fulford-wp/gcx4-battle-of-fulford-five-days-to-stamford-bridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Fulford: The Long Shadow on Hastings https://qualla.com/battle-of-fulford/ Three days after Stamford Bridge, William of Normandy landed at Pevensey on the south coast. Harold turned his exhausted army around and marched another 250 miles south. The men who fought at Hastings on 14 October were the survivors of two battles already won - tired, depleted, ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/4/battle-of-fulford-wp/gcx4-battle-of-fulford-the-long-shadow-on-hastings.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Fulford: Walking the Ground https://qualla.com/battle-of-fulford/ There is no battlefield monument of any consequence at Fulford - just suburban lanes, a parish church, and the slow brown Ouse. The Battlefields Trust has mapped the likely deployment lines along Germany Beck, a small watercourse that ran through the Saxon position. For years the...

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