The Last Viking - The Campaigns of Harald Hardrada [FULL DOCUMENTARY]
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Published 2022-02-26
In this animated history documentary we continue to follow the legendary saga of Harald Hardrada:
Harald Hardrada - Rise of a Viking Legend (1015-1041 AD)
Sets the geopolitical stage for the birth of Harald Sigurdsson. At an early age he rose to take part in these affairs, taking the field in battle to support the claim to the throne of his relative. However defeat would see him exiled. Harald now gathered survivors in Sweden and set off to the east to make a new life for himself. This would involve taking up the role of a mercenary group, first for Jaroslav the Wise of the Kievan Rus and later the Emperors of the Byzantines. In this way he was able to build a foundation of both fame and fortune with which to fuel his triumphant return home.
Harald Hardrada - A Game of Northern Thrones (1041-1061 AD)
Explores the return of Harald Sigurdsson to the land of the Rus where he reclaims his fortune and marries the princess Elizaveta. With gold and girl in hand, he then continues on to Scandinavia to participate in the Northern Game of Thrones. These affair ultimately culminate with his crowning as the King of Norway.
Harald Hardrada - The Battle of Nisa (1062 AD)
With Harald on the Throne of Norway, he now turns an ambitious eye to the thrones of his neighbors with the ultimate goal of reuniting the North Sea Empire. For now much of his attention is focused on Denmark. Annual raids assault its coasts with the campaigns finally culminating in the climactic naval battle of Nisa.
Harald Hardrada - The Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066 AD)
This final chapter explores Harald Hardrada's invasion of England. We follow his preparations, his advance along the coast, and finally his landing. These result in two critical clashes which decide the fate of the campaign, the Battle of Fulford and the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Sources:
"King Harald’s Saga: Harald Hadradi of Norway" trans. Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson
"Harald Hadrada: The Warriors Way" by John Marsden
"The Heimskringla - King Harald's Saga" by Snorri Sturluson
"The Norwegian Invasion" by DeVries
"Anglo-Saxon Chronicles"
Credits:
Research: Sophia Ware
Writing: Sophia Ware
Narration: Invicta
Artwork: Penta
Editing: Penta
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All Comments (21)
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Harald Hardrada, a true Mount and Blade character.
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A complete 1 hour 9 minutes and 40 seconds of full saga, WITHOUT ADDS?! I'm living my history nerd dream today!
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This dude was soo bad ass. What a life. They need to make a movie out of this legend story.
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He was 18 when he went to Byzantium.. Jesus I need to do something with my life
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Vikings in the Middle East is the most fucking epic sounding thing ever
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What an amazing life. His descendants might have even ruled England for a thousand years if he'd delayed his invasion for a month.
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For many, Harold Hardrada is the one who failed at getting England. After watching this, I'd say he was the one who finally failed at something after failing to fail so many times before.
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At site of battle of stamford bridge they found sabers and armour from the east lots of the men that served with harold in varangian guard followd him till the end
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For even an experienced veteran like Hadrada to feel comfortable in leaving armour and heavy equipment at camp when venturing to Stamford bridge, shows just how rapid Godwinson was at marching north. The lesson is no matter how chill things seem, always be prepared for a serious battle! Haha
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For me the greatest of the Vikings will always be Erik the Red, its rather criminal how underrated and unknown the Vikings of Greenland are, which is a shame as they were the first true overseas colony(outside of Europe and the Mediterranean), going on from 980-1450AD(roughly, its unknown when the colonies truly ceased to exist, let alone where the people went), as well as being the first well recorded Europeans to actually set up shop in the New World(the Celts have a claim to be before them, but their history of such events is nearly nonexistent, being on roughly equal footing with the Carthaginians).
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"The wishes of the dead matter little to the bold" that's a nice quote
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In a few years when medieval history shows can be done the proper way again. A Harald Hardrada series would be epic if done correctly and with a bit of money!
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this is for sure the best recounting of viking history that i've yet to absorb. from facts gathered to the narration itself it is by far the crowning glory of all the reflections of our distant past. the best for sure. thank you for your time and efforts.
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Harald Hardrada was a true legend. I just started to watch the new Vikings in which he's portraited. Hopefully it's at least somewhat historical, although as cool as the show is, it's not very historically accurate. I also plan to make a documentary on him.
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one of the greatest vikings to ever live
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Just want to point out that Harald Fairhair (Harald Hårfagre) and Harald Hardrada (Harald Hardråde) was two DIFFERENT people, who lived in two different times during the viking era, with a gap of atleast 100 years between each other being alive, according to sources.
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its amazing how poems writen in old norse flow and rhyme perfectly in modern english, almost as if they where modern english poems, and infact not old norse poems.......
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Harald Fairhair was born in 850, died in931 or 932 and was the first King of Norway. Harald Harderåde has never been called Fairhair. Harald Fairhair was his grand, grand, something. Sigurdson is the correct last name.
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Harald Hardrada has always been my favorite Norse figure in history, up there with Alexander the Great and Memnon of Rhodes for the Classical world. ❤
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So much effort and time Invicta and his team puts into these videos. I truly appreciate this! Love watching and learning from your content.
