The Viking Age · 14 October 1066
Seventy Metres of Wool
The Vikings’ Norman heirs take England, and English needles stitch the record
William heard mass before dawn on 14 October 1066 and hung around his neck the relics Harold had once sworn an oath on; his chaplain, who wrote the campaign up as a lawsuit God decided, records the gesture.
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