What if Gyrth Godwinson survived the Battle of Hastings?

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Leofwine and Harold die, but Earl Gyrth manages to kill a Norman knight, take his horse and flee the battlefield and reach London. What happens next?
 
Leofwine and Harold die, but Earl Gyrth manages to kill a Norman knight, take his horse and flee the battlefield and reach London. What happens next?

Well if what's been written about Gyrth...accounts say that he attempted, unsuccessfully, to persuade Harold to break is oath to William of Normandy and to support the latter's succession as King of England...is true and not a bit of post-Conquest Norman propaganda, then most likely he submits to William at London and is present at his coronation on Christmas Day, 1066. He then becomes a loyal supporter of William's regime.

How that affects the pacification of the rest of England is hard to say. Possibly he is able to convince William to be a bit less harsh in his land redistributions after Hastings, and convinces the Saxons to embrace the Normans rather than rebelling against them. Possibly no Harrying of the North?
 
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