![]() ![]() Tostig was the son of Earl Godwin of Wessex, and brother of Harold, was born in about 1025. ![]() The questions on Harold's mind must have been "What had provoked the Viking attack, and why now, when England was facing the threat of the Normans?" He soon found out! Harold's ambitious, renegade brother, Earl Tostig, had travelled to Norway and persuaded the Norse King to attack England. Treachery! Earl Tostig plots with King Hardrada ![]() This destroyed King Harold's plans to deal with Duke William's invading force from Normandy. He force-marched his Army to the North of England, on the old Roman road called "Watling Street". Harold had no alternative but to move his army to defend his Kingdom from the Vikings. The Viking forces were even greater than those expected from the Normans. Preparation for Battle of Hastings & Norman InvasionĪfter waiting for sight of the Normans and losing his levies the desperate news then came of a Viking landing on a lightly defended part of the North East coast. ![]()
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