Battle Casuualty of 900 Years Ago Fight to the death but it ' s an Englishman who bites the dust and a Norwegian invader who triumphs when the battle of Stamford Bridge is re - enacted in the 900th anniversary celebrations at the small village near York . Junior soldiers and students took fighting parts in todays representation of the battle which King Harold fought a few days before Hastings . 25th September 1966