When a Battle Changed Everything
Eighteen days. That's all it took to end five hundred years of Anglo-Saxon England. In eighteen days, a king wins the greatest victory of his life, marches 250 miles, dies on a hillside, and a duke from Normandy is crowned in a burning abbey. Every word of English you're hearing right now, half of it exists because of what happened in those eighteen days.
Primary sources
William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi (Deeds of Duke William),
William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes).
Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (Song of the Battle of Hastings)
The Bayeux Tapestry (c…
The skinny
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