tallthinkev
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There have been many WI Harold had won at Hastings. Let's say he did, now the question. How would it be remembered today? Just someone tried to invade and lost, or would the public even know that it happed at all?
There have been many WI Harold had won at Hastings. Let's say he did, now the question. How would it be remembered today? Just someone tried to invade and lost, or would the public even know that it happed at all?
An interesting idea resulting from this is that if Harold won, he may well be remembered as one of the world's greatest generals. He carried out one of the fastest forced marches in history from one end of the country to the other, and ended two separate invasions. The guy is practically Alfred 2.0 but even better!
There have been many WI Harold had won at Hastings. Let's say he did, now the question. How would it be remembered today? Just someone tried to invade and lost, or would the public even know that it happed at all?
In the very least he will become very well known among his contemporaries as a great warrior, especially if he later beats off the Danish too.
There have been many WI Harold had won at Hastings. Let's say he did, now the question. How would it be remembered today? Just someone tried to invade and lost, or would the public even know that it happed at all?
Well it would be a turning point as it would be the end of the house of Wessex and the start of the House of Godwin.
I think Hastings might be a little more remembered, if for the simultaneous double-invasion of England and the impressive feat of forced-marching a medieval army from victory to victory across the length of England, and not necessarily for the continued existence of Anglo-Saxon rule.
I suppose in any case, it depends on what happens next! Does he have a long and glorious reign, does his son take part in the First Crusade, or does England continue as a backwater dogged by constant invasion and upheaval?
Since when was England a backwater prior to the Norman Conquest? It had one of the most sophisticated and centralized governments and was quite wealthy (there's a reason that so many people were trying to conquer it).
What I wonder is if the Saxons will break from Catholic tradition somehow due to what they will perceive as their betrayal by the Pope. Didn't England and the remainder of the isles practice a variant of Celtic Christianity prior to being Catholic?