<P> So many died in an area so small that the field was said to have been still whitened with bleached bones 50 years after the battle . </P> <P> King Harold accepted a truce with the surviving Norwegians, including Harald's son Olaf and Paul Thorfinnsson, Earl of Orkney . They were allowed to leave after giving pledges not to attack England again . The losses the Norwegians had suffered were so severe that only 24 ships from the fleet of over 300 were needed to carry the survivors away . They withdrew to Orkney, where they spent the winter, and in the spring Olaf returned to Norway . The kingdom was then divided and shared between him and his brother Magnus, whom Harald had left behind to govern in his absence . </P> <P> Harold's victory was short - lived . Three days after the battle, on 28 September, a second invasion army led by William, Duke of Normandy, landed in Pevensey Bay, Sussex, on the south coast of England . Harold had to immediately turn his troops around and force - march them southwards to intercept the Norman army . Less than three weeks after Stamford Bridge, on 14 October 1066, the English army was decisively defeated and King Harold II fell in action at the Battle of Hastings, beginning the Norman conquest of England, a process facilitated by the heavy losses amongst the English military commanders . </P> <P> Two monuments to the battle have been erected in and around the village of Stamford Bridge . </P>

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