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393 – To Kill a Legend

The British History Podcast

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What's the Worst Revisionist Version of Harold's Body?

According to the heraldi king, harold godwinson was terribly wounded in battle and collapsed amongst the many dead who lay there at the battlefield. But despite his numerous deadly injuries, he wasn't dead. So two common men from the village decided to carry his body in secret to the city of winchester where he could evade detection by the normans. This treatment, we're told, was provided by a saracen woman trained in the medical arts - which meant that she would have been basically providing stayted the art medicine at this point in england's history. And for two years, harold and his saracen doctor remained in that cellar. Eventually, the true king

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