The Battle of Hastings
Dan Snow's History Hit
00:00
The Crucial Point in the Battle of Harold and the Anglo Saxons
The carmon, willme poitier and the byar tapestry all agree that at some point the normans started to run away. They disagree as to whether it was feigned or whether it was the normans start to run away, and the english follow them down the hill. It's impossible to unpick which source is right there, though i think the most credible one is perhaps the normans tried to feign it. And the carman says a flight that was started off as a ruse, as a trick, then became a real one as it went wrong. The normans pulled that off, and they managed a sort of encircle the groups of
Play episode from 45:33
Transcript
