
393 – To Kill a Legend
The British History Podcast
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The Life of Harold Godwinson
In the vida heralde, a hermit named christian claims to be harold godwinson. He lived as a hermit for ten years in dover and then moved to welsh marches. But whenever people figured out who he was, they kicked his ass. The author urges us to believe him because he claims that he heard the story from another hermit. And actually, it wasn't just kept at waltham, it was penned there. In 17 hundreds, a man claimed that he foundHarold's body while doing renovations on his cellar. It was completely demolished by soontheafter with no trace of the alleged tomb surviving.
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