The End of Herrywood's Story

I think there's several elements to it. He's one of those characters that you can use to fit whatever story you're trying to tell in your own period, whenever it is that you're writing. And i think for writers in england who followed in the centuries after the conquest, i think it was a chance to show that england hadn't quite capitulated and had been harder than the normans might have liked to admit. I suspect there's also an element of the the ending of herrywood's story in particular, that allowed the english to convince themselves that they'd sort of reached an accommodation with their new norman rulers. Were only ruled by the normans because we