The catastrophic defeat that forced William I to unleash the Harrying of the North. Edgar Aetheling allied with a Danish fleet under King Sweyn; together they stormed York and massacred the Norman garrison. William's response was the systematic devastation of the north — burning villages, salting fields, killing livestock — which Domesday Book recorded twenty years later as still-wasted land.
c.3,000 Norman garrison killed
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