Gods Viking: Harald Hardrada - The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 Fields NicPevná vazba
Gods Viking: Harald Hardrada - The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 Fields NicPevná vazba "If published as a novel, the life of Harald Hardrada (c.?1015-1066) could quite…
Specifikacia Gods Viking: Harald Hardrada - The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 Fields NicPevná vazba
Gods Viking: Harald Hardrada - The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 Fields NicPevná vazba
"If published as a novel, the life of Harald Hardrada (c.?1015-1066) could quite easily be dismissed as highly improbable... But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that spanned decades and continents. God's Viking is an excellent read about a remarkable character." - Strategy PageHarald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of 'seven feet of English soil' in that year of fateful change, 1066.
A man of war, his reign 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.