William's Conquest of Hastings

The carmen is our earliest record, and it's very clear that william refused to give harold's body to githa. But now that we went through all these records on one, you can see how that didn't sit well with later writers. And this whole saga tells us that there wasn't just a war for territory and battlefields. There was also a war for the mind, for the very concept of what was english and what wasn't. For who was at fault and who wasn't, for what was real and what wasn’t. By refusing to bury the english, he was making a profound spiritual threat.