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What Happened to King Harold's Body?
There's quite a lot of confusion about what happened to king harold after the battle of hastings. The tale of that body begins with our earliest surviving record, the carman dehastinga proleo. He tells us that after the fighting, william ordered for the dead french and norman soldiers to be given christian burials. But he also ordered that the english dead must remain where they lay to be eaten by worms, wolves, birds and dogs.