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Harold II, king of the English, slew brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada, king of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge #OTD in 1066. A lone Norwegian held the bridge for some time in a later tale. Of the 300 ships that had descended upon Northumbria 24 returned. ©Angus McBride

May 25: Feast of Bede (673-735), priest of Gyruum (Jarrow), biblical scholar. Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People. When news of his death reached missionaries Boniface wrote ‘the candle of the Church, lit by the Holy Spirit, was extinguished’. Originally May 26.

Reconstruction of the probably Pictish outpost of Dundurn, Perthshire, by Peter Dennis, and the site today. Perhaps a key stronghold of the Pictish kingdom of Atholl, it was torched in 682. #HillfortsWednesday

Harold II, king of the English, reached Tatecastre (Tadcaster, Yorkshire) with all his levies #OTD in 1066. There he prepared to fight his brother Tostig Godwineson and Harald Hardrada, king of Norway. Harold may have covered the 200 miles from London in as little as five days.

Reconstruction of the probably Pictish outpost of Dundurn, Perthshire, by Peter Dennis, and the site today. Perhaps a key stronghold of the Pictish kingdom of Atholl, it was torched in 682. #HillfortsWednesday