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Regarding the lone Viking warrior single-handedly holding off the Anglo-Saxons on Stamford Bridge in 1066…what is the prevailing academic view on the veracity of this story?
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/u/wotan_weevil and /u/sagathain approached the alleged episode mainly from literary-focused points of view in:
The Berserker at Stamford Bridge
I also wrote on the extant source situation of the episode for a while before in:
Was there ever a name given to the Viking that held Stamford Bridge in 1066?