The Death of a King

The english dead could not and would not be collected. There's no record of even the nobl being given passage to collect their family members. As no record exists of the body of gurth leofina or hakon swainson being reclaimed and being given a proper burial. And that brings us back to the body of king harold godwinson, who was mutilated by his French conquerors. Harold's mother pleaded with william to return her son's body, and the norman duke refused. Tha then offered to pay william, promising to give him her son's weight in gold, just to get her child's body back. And again,