The Battle of Hastings
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What Is Harold's Shot in the Eye By?
The arrow in the eye is one of the most famous epessoes in english history, and it may well never have happened. It's not mentioned anywhere else ae sources. There are no flexhings, those little feathers on the back of an arrow, if you go back beyond the nineteenth century. No other contemporary source, wod mention arro to benot. I find the most convincing theory is one mentioned in a sorce called the song of the battle of hastings. That is that william gathers his elite troops around him, looks for harold's banner, the fighting man of wessex,. A jewel encrusted banner featuring a fighting man, and charges straightforward
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