I used to be an adventurer like you...
This guy’s theory is about as valid as my own personal theory: Harold became a chartered accountant and moved to Perth.
Nice blade marks on that skull. Must’ve been short swords.
I have a copy of the Oct.1966 National Geographic issue that has the Bayeaux Tapestry depicted. Need to fish it out and take another look.
For later
Tis but a scratch...
Harold was done in by illegal immigrants.
I'm not saying I'd ever be as interesting or important to warrant that sort of treatment. My position is that it is what was inside the skull was far more important.
Still, in any case, I just have an aversion to examining any bones or remains where one can reasonably be certain they had a name and that name is known beforehand. At some point, respect for the dead has to triumph over academic curiosity.
I saw him sipping coffee in a night cafe with James, Marylin, and Elvis.
He ain’t dead, he’s just restin’.
He was the Moe Greene of his day.
He was the Moe Greene of his day.
He was probably just running around the battlefield with a sharp arrow in his hand.
His mother, Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, warned him not to do that. It's a little known fact that King Harold II's face was permanently contorted into a grotesque grim. Yes, he didn't believe Madam Thorkelsdóttir when she said if he didn't quit, it would freeze like that.
It will be fascinating to see what they find, but I really doubt Harold got away. In those days no claimant of a throne would allow a rival to live.
