Qualla: Battle of Stainmore https://qualla.com/battle-of-stainmore 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 Stainmore https://qualla.com/battle-of-stainmore Battle of Stainmore: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-stainmore/ His name was Eric, but the sagas remembered him as Bloodaxe. In 954, on the moorland pass that carries travelers across the Pennines between the Eden valley and the Vale of York, Eric Bloodaxe was killed - and with him died the independent Norse kingdom of York. The Battle of Stainmore is one of those quiet hinges of English history, fought in a place so empty that the wind still seems to be looking for something to push against.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/q/battle-of-stainmore-wp/gcwq-battle-of-stainmore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Stainmore: A Kingdom That Kept Changing Hands https://qualla.com/battle-of-stainmore/ Northumbria in the tenth century was a chessboard, and the pieces kept getting knocked over. Olaf Sihtricson became its king in 941, raided Tamworth in 943, made peace with King Edmund of England, then lost the kingdom the next year and ran off to rule Dublin instead. When Edmund...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/q/battle-of-stainmore-wp/gcwq-battle-of-stainmore-a-kingdom-that-kept-changing-hands.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Stainmore: The Man Called Bloodaxe https://qualla.com/battle-of-stainmore/ Eric had been a son of Harald Fairhair, the king who first unified Norway. He had ruled there briefly, badly, and was driven out - earning the nickname Bloodaxe along the way for the violence he visited on rival claimants, including some of his own brothers. By the time he arrive...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/q/battle-of-stainmore-wp/gcwq-battle-of-stainmore-the-man-called-bloodaxe.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Stainmore: The Pass at Stainmore https://qualla.com/battle-of-stainmore/ In 954 the Northumbrians removed Eric one last time. He left Northumbria, possibly heading for Dublin or the Hebrides - the route would have taken him over Stainmore, the bleak ridge between modern Cumbria and County Durham where the A66 still cuts across the Pennines today. Some...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/q/battle-of-stainmore-wp/gcwq-battle-of-stainmore-the-pass-at-stainmore.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Stainmore: Aftermath and Echoes https://qualla.com/battle-of-stainmore/ Eric's death ended the independence of Scandinavian York. The city and its territory became part of England. Eadred installed Oswulf of Bamburgh as earl of Northumbria, and from that point on, the region was ruled by earls who answered to English kings rather than by Norse warlor...

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