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How King Harold Really Died at Hastings

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For centuries, people believed King Harold died with an arrow buried in his eye at the Battle of Hastings. But the famous Bayeux Tapestry may not show what we think it does. Was Harold truly struck down by an arrow, or was his death turned into one of history’s most brutal medieval myths?