When news of the Normans comes, the village makes to march- but there is no time to wait for the wounded and dying.
Thus Garulf, an englisc weapon-man, stays behind with the leg-wounded Hrafn, leader of the vikingr, tending the dead and dying.
These are the hardships of the warrior:
To see friends and comrades buried...
...to travel harshly in all weather...
...and to come to aid in battle when the battle is all but lost.
With the shield wall broken by Norman trickery, the English forces are slaughtered, caught on both sides by their foe. Elsewhere on the battlefield, King Harold is slain and brutalized, and the demoralized English forces are killed, or flee.
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