The Viking Age · 25 September 1066
Seven Feet of Ground
England offers the king of Norway seven feet of ground, and keeps the promise
The Norwegians saw the dust before they saw the army: a cloud on the York road that grew as it came, and under it, glittering, Snorri says, like a field of broken ice, the weapons of men who were supposed…
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