Hello ladies and gents this is the Viking telling you that today we are talking about
Facts about Hastings
1. Actually the battle was fought some six to seven miles from Hastings, near the town now known as Battle, probably at Senlac Hill.
2. King Harold of England, who was slain at the Battle of Hastings, had a tattoo over his heart that read: “Edith and England”.
3. The Bayeux Tapestry, telling the history of the Battle, is 230 feet long and was commissioned by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent who was the half-brother of William the Conqueror.
4. It isn’t actually a tapestry but an embroidered cloth. Tapestries are woven not embroidered.
5. Hastings won a Platinum Loo of the Year Award and an Individual Attendant of the Year Award in 2013 for its public toilets at the Stade beach.
And as always have a chilled day from the Viking
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