Month: February 2022

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The shores of Saint Valery must have been quite the sight. Looking at the records, which discuss the size of this fleet and other notes that let us estimate the size of the original fleet launched from the River Dives, and comparing those to the records of the fleet following it’s mooring at Saint Valery…historians estimate William lost somewhere in the region of 100 ships. Some were shipwrecked. But others would have just deserted.

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We left off in the Court of Harald Hardrada.

And you probably feel like you know a lot about this man by now. There’s the stories about the empress, and his time as a Varagian, and about his reputation as a seductive warrior poet. And all of the “oh my god this guy is hot” stories really were circulating around him… Like, if you were going to cast Harald Hardrada for your 1066 movie, you would probably cast him with Jason Momoa. But Harald was a person, and while the stories about Harald’s sex appeal are hilariously awesome (which is why I often bring them up), the fact was that Harald had many more sides to him.