>defeat the Norwegians>lose to France shortly afterward960 years of hurt
that's a small bridge
>>156604005Is that Dan Burn's ancestor?
>>156604014for you
>>156604014People were shorter in those days, so bridges and roads and stuff were smaller.
>>156604005that axe wielding soldier leading the charge must've been like 10 feet tall zamn!and that poor man that jumped 15 feet in the air didnt even get to draw his sword before he got struck by an arrow. They had some freaks of nature fighting their wars back then
>>156604005>One of the Norwegians, armed with an axe, blocked the narrow crossing and single-handedly held up the entire English army. This Norwegian alone cut down more than 40 Englishmen and was defeated only when an English soldier floated under the bridge and thrust his spear through the planks in the bridge and under the warrior's mail shirt.Who is going to be the sneaky English to pull it off this time?
1066 was bizarreAn actual Viking vs a half Viking vs a semi-Frenchified VikingAlso Normans dont get enough respect they did crazy shit in this time period
>>156604160Why didnt they just shoot arrows at him. Nothing about this story makes sense. Even if he was killed you'd still have to funnel your army through a narrow bridge the Norwegians could just wait at the other end and wreck them or destroy the bridge
>>156604005Did that big dude died in the end?
>>156604005>left flag of norway and e glish cross>right heathen crow of odinWtf is going on in this image
>>156604229>So many died in an area so small that the field was said to have been still whitened with bleached bones 50 years after the battleThey got massacred
>have epic 1v1 against your nordbros and win>get third partied by some French larpers>win that too until they use their only tactic (running away) and in your exhausted delerium make the mistake of chasing them down1060 years of hurt
Weren't the French Normans who were nordic
>>156604005Damn how powerful was that arrow?
>>156604229I choose to believe that he did a RAAARGH charge into the French hordes while a slowed-down breathy version of music you heard on the radio a few years ago plays
>>156604202I guess you had to be there
>>156604202>forced QTEs are a modern invention
>>156604202>taking anything from old chronicles as read According to Bede the coast of east anglia was terrorised for years by a giant sea cat
>>156604414Prove it wasnt
>>156604414Doubt the sea cat at your peril
>>156604414AAAHHH
>>156604014Stamford bridge is a small stadium
>Why didnt they just shoot arrows at him. Nothing about this story makes sense. Even if he was killed you'd still have to funnel your army through a narrow bridge the Norwegians could just wait at the other end and wreck them or destroy the bridge
>>156604005>SAY HIS NAME>SAY HIS NAME
>>156604065>People were shorter in those daysNot really, the minimum height to join the Roman Legions was 5'7" so they weren't THAT much shorter than us
>>156604296>an epic 1v1The reason Stamford Bridge was such a resounding victory was because Harold Godwinson and his forces attacked so suddenly that a lot of the norsemen didn't even have time to get their gear on
>>156605306Hopefully we try the same tactic and start kick-off before Haaland’s done taking his pre-match shit tonight.
>>156604296God wanted William the Bastard to win Hastings and rule over England. Because nothing else explains the level of plot armor the Normans had on their side.
>>156604329>I wasn't even supposed to be here>This is supposed to be my day off>I wish I was eating hay in a stable somewhere
>>156604026The axe guy is a Norwegian, the english wrote about a Norwegian axe wielding soilder who held off a lot of englishmen on a narrow bridge all alone, the story goes that after a while a guy went on a boat, went under the bridge and stabbed him from below with a spear.
>>156604407>minoritieskek
>>156604318They all spoke french though, it's why there are so many french words in english.They became the new landed nobility
>>156604202>surprised that pre-enligthenment text is full of nonsensical mythologyIs this your first time being exposed to history?
>>156605008kek
