God's Viking: Harald Hardrada - The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 (Fields Nic)(Pevná vazba)

"If published as a novel, the life of Harald Hardrada (c.?1015-1066) could quite easily be dismissed as highly improbable... God's Viking is an excellent read about a remarkable character." - Strategy Page

Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of 'seven feet of English soil' in that year of fateful change, 1066. But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that spanned decades and continents. Thus, prior to forcibly occupying the Norwegian throne, Harald had an interesting (and lucrative) career in the Varangian Guard, and he remains unquestionably the most notable of all the Varangians who served the Byzantine emperors: in the latter employment he saw active service in the Aegean, Sicily, Italy, Anatolia, Syria, Palestine and Bulgaria, while in Constantinople he was the hired muscle behind a palace revolution. A man of war, his reign
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