Harald Hardrada - The last viking king of the North

[neloon]

As Bruce Scott says - 2 different Harolds (beat me to it).

I was recently in Denmark and visited the Jelling Rune Stones. Great museum, it's adjacent to the burial mounds of Gorm the Old and Harold Bluetooth.

I don't think the viking on the bridge in the original post is meant to be Hardrada - instead it depicts a famous moment in the battle of Stirling Bridge where an exceptional tall, lone, viking held the bridge for some time, until one of the saxons was able to float under the bridge and attack him from below.

He prob. isn't wearing a kilt - as we know it - but I understand that the word comes from Old Norse meaning to pleat or gather.

No Vikings at Stirling Bridge - a few centuries too late! How about Stamford Bridge
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba...tamford_Bridge

Alan