1066 The Battle for Middle Earth_2of2
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00:00:00Many long years ago, a great tumult came to the world of men.
00:00:17Our Middle Earth was invaded, not once, but twice in the same year.
00:00:26The First War took the weaponed men far from their wife-men and their homes to do battle
00:00:33against the Viking up in the north.
00:00:39Much blood was shed before the English brought down the mighty Norsemen.
00:00:48But then, before the Victory Cup could be tasted, news came of a second enemy, to the south.
00:00:55Hail! Up with you! We march again!
00:01:00The Normans have come. They've landed in Sussex.
00:01:05Brave men of Sussex, where were you when you were needed so keenly?
00:01:12Now you would have to run the whole length of England to fight a second war against the Normans
00:01:21and hold a hill near Hastings from a Duke who would be conqueror.
00:01:32These terrible events of the year 1066 were woven into a tapestry fit for a king.
00:01:41But these threads speak only of conquest through the voice of a conqueror.
00:01:49If you look more closely, you can see the little people of our shire who fought against him and his killing breed.
00:02:11This is the story of all Englishmen who lay witness to the darkest year of our times.
00:03:11This is the story of all Englishmen who lay witness to the darkest year of our times.
00:03:41This is the story of all Englishmen who lay witness to the darkest year of our times.
00:04:12Come on!
00:04:14Jump in!
00:04:16Jump in!
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00:04:34Jump in!
00:04:37You will not escape!
00:04:42You will not escape!
00:04:58You will not escape!
00:05:06You will not escape!
00:05:09You will not escape!
00:05:30You will not escape!
00:05:34You will not escape!
00:05:38You will not escape!
00:06:00Where are the fighting men?
00:06:02Where are the men?
00:06:08Why are the men north?
00:06:11To fight the Vikings. All the weapon men are in the north.
00:06:27Go, go! After them!
00:06:38Go, go!
00:07:00This is punishment for the cheating ways of your king.
00:07:09Go, go!
00:07:16Of your huskos and the men who deserted you.
00:07:22They have come to fight a Vikinger.
00:07:26It is likely they have come for good.
00:07:38Do you like my English?
00:08:08No!
00:08:39No!
00:08:54Have sorrow for the wife men of Crowhurst.
00:08:58But pity also their weapon men.
00:09:03So far from fighting off the demons who possess their village.
00:09:08And now so few.
00:09:12The army of King Harald was strung across the northern forests.
00:09:17Many taking leave of breath and falling from exhaustion.
00:09:30So desperate for fighting men were the English,
00:09:33that they admitted into their war band any man willing to fight for food or silver,
00:09:38no matter their previous allegiance.
00:09:47We rest here!
00:09:50We are safe.
00:09:52I am at rest.
00:10:00More Vikinger will come.
00:10:04We need more than those.
00:10:07We need the winter to rest.
00:10:09Where is your king?
00:10:12I have not heard this past two nights.
00:10:16I hope he rides for more men.
00:10:18You hope?
00:10:21Oh, God! We rested.
00:10:24We cannot run as we ran north.
00:10:27The road has turned arsh.
00:10:29We must gather our strength and stop past them.
00:10:32What of Crowhurst?
00:10:34Crowhurst is a village of five families.
00:10:38England is a country.
00:10:41At least I'll be gone.
00:10:43We shall not win this battle
00:10:45by allowing the few men we have to go searching after their kin.
00:10:49I'm sorry.
00:10:55Fairfax, please.
00:11:00Come on.
00:11:22We're marching!
00:11:25Awaken!
00:11:28Go on! Move on!
00:11:30Come on!
00:11:32Give and take!
00:11:34Come on! Move!
00:11:36Come on! Move!
00:11:47Who was this enemy laying waste to our southlands?
00:11:53They had come from across the Whale Road,
00:11:56from the dark shores of Normandy,
00:11:59and gave us such night fears
00:12:01they were known to us as Orcs.
00:12:19Deep in their forests,
00:12:22this dark curse had been many months in its casting.
00:12:29A blessed crusade in the name of the Pope.
00:12:34The bastard Duke William believed himself to be the rightful king of England,
00:12:39promised thus by our noble Harold himself.
00:12:43Sworn over holy bones,
00:12:46so the Normans say.
00:12:49When Harold took the crown for himself,
00:12:52William commanded his shaven-headed knights
00:12:55to bring their horses to the sea.
00:13:10Few had ever sailed before.
00:13:14Most could not swim.
00:13:18Horses and men would make bad sea fellows.
00:13:49Whale!
00:13:52The whaling winds that have always defended this isle of Middle Earth
00:13:58gave rough passage to the Orca fleet.
00:14:04If only those winds had sent more ships
00:14:07to the bottom of the Whale Road,
00:14:09where they belonged.
00:14:19But God,
00:14:21for reasons only he knows,
00:14:24chose to spare them.
00:14:27One by one the Orcish vessels came over the horizon.
00:14:36The pestilence had landed,
00:14:39scattered all along the undefended cliffs and dunes
00:14:43of our blessed England.
00:14:48And now you know what was to become of our little village of Crowhurst,
00:14:53perched on the road from the sea to Hastings.
00:15:49What is this?
00:15:51Norman?
00:16:18This is a message to your king, Odgar.
00:16:48I want this body share of a wife, Mad Sea, by every weapon man here.
00:16:55This is what we must fight!
00:16:58This is the only way we can survive!
00:17:01Let me in!
00:17:03Let me in!
00:17:04Let me in.
00:17:06Let me in!
00:17:12Let me in!
00:17:14Let me in.
00:17:15This is what we must fight!
00:17:19You go south, Boar.
00:17:21You go south and cede your village.
00:17:23No.
00:17:26This is cunning.
00:17:28They've sent these white men here to angle you into battle ahead of time.
00:17:38Go south.
00:17:41Take this horse with you.
00:17:42Leifric, remember you are a Huskar.
00:17:45Go with him.
00:17:46Oh, God.
00:17:47Go!
00:17:50And if you find Crowhurst, and if any yet still live,
00:17:55take the white men to the priory.
00:17:57The Norman must respect the walls of solitude.
00:18:00And find whichever men you can,
00:18:02and tell them we come in great number, but we need more.
00:18:05Go!
00:18:06Do you not know which way Crowhurst lies?
00:18:08We'll find it.
00:18:09Take the road that brings the fish.
00:18:11The one that rises up and falls down again before you smell the salt.
00:18:16You will know your village by the smell of ash.
00:18:31The cruel orcs had sent a message to all weaponed men.
00:18:36What were our brave warriors to do but fly in rage towards their homestead?
00:18:43Little caring that the Normans lay like wolves in wait for their prey.
00:18:52Come on.
00:18:54Just leave him!
00:18:55Come on.
00:18:56Come on.
00:18:57Tolfik!
00:18:58Tolfik, just... Come on!
00:19:28Come on.
00:19:29Come on.
00:19:56This was once my father.
00:20:00Judas.
00:20:04Judas!
00:20:06Judas!
00:20:29Come on.
00:21:00I have sorrow for you.
00:21:24How many days since I was hand-fasted?
00:21:29Three weeks.
00:21:30I don't know.
00:21:36Our lives are gone.
00:21:41Our lives are gone.
00:21:45They do this?
00:21:49They do such things as this in the name of the Christ?
00:21:55Bastards.
00:21:57Bastards.
00:21:59Bast...
00:22:01Bastards.
00:22:02Oh, God.
00:22:04Bastards!
00:22:09Who's there?
00:22:29Who's there?
00:22:46I am armed.
00:22:52I am a weapon man of this shire.
00:22:55Show yourself.
00:22:59Show yourself.
00:23:08I said, show yourself.
00:23:18Oh, child.
00:23:21Child, merciful Lord.
00:23:27Child, what befell here?
00:23:29Where are the wife men?
00:23:34Child, listen.
00:23:35I know you.
00:23:37Your name is Elf.
00:23:39You were born ten days after the Swallows flew back.
00:23:42I know you.
00:23:44I am your friend.
00:23:47Then tell me what happened here.
00:23:51What did you see?
00:23:52Nothing.
00:23:55The warrior seeking his gun must defend England's graveyards.
00:24:01Blackbirds of Cairn follow.
00:24:04Death comes.
00:24:06You are safe.
00:24:08Now, you are safe.
00:24:09Keep warm.
00:24:17I promise you,
00:24:19no sword shall harm you.
00:24:22No Norman will come for you.
00:24:26I am a huskall of this village, and I swear
00:24:30I will keep fear from you.
00:24:34I swear.
00:24:38I have not even anger.
00:24:41If I had anger, my soul would have strength of purpose.
00:24:46I have no anger.
00:24:48Oh, I have anger.
00:24:50I have enough anger for the two of us.
00:24:56They took the wife men.
00:24:59They took the wife men, Liv?
00:25:03Where?
00:25:04Where did they go? Do you remember?
00:25:07The forest road.
00:25:20Now,
00:25:22just one day's march away,
00:25:25the stragglers that formed King Harald's army
00:25:29were gathering numbers every hour.
00:25:33Spirits, they say, were strengthening.
00:25:36More weapon men were promised every day from Kent, from Anglia.
00:25:44The sooner these orcs were found,
00:25:46the sooner they could be driven back into the whale road whence they came.
00:25:51And so, scouting parties were summoned
00:25:54to track the vermin down.
00:26:04Ah, good morning.
00:26:06We're moving on.
00:26:08Bring the wife man, she's proved herself fit and well built.
00:26:12Yes, she has.
00:26:13We must find the Norman under cover of dark.
00:26:16And what do we do when they're found?
00:26:20Kill them while they sleep.
00:26:22It's not honorable to kill them while they sleep.
00:26:27We should cut them while they sleep.
00:26:32So, with their last blink of the eye, as you hold them by the hair,
00:26:36slice off their balls
00:26:38and feed them to the pigs.
00:26:40Feed the pigs.
00:26:42Dirty, flea-ganger bastards.
00:26:45We feed them to the pigs.
00:26:48There are men here.
00:26:50What?
00:26:52There are men here. I know this.
00:26:54Bring your hand.
00:26:56There's no hand in there.
00:26:58There's no hand in the bag.
00:27:00There's no hand in the bag.
00:27:03Go on.
00:27:13Halt.
00:27:14What?
00:27:15There are men here. I know this.
00:27:17Stop! These men!
00:27:24Vodka, there are men in the trees.
00:27:28The Norman have many sentries.
00:27:32There are sentries upholstered in trees, Earl.
00:27:37Hiding their nuts like squirrels.
00:27:45Here.
00:27:47It's okay.
00:28:12Another one, and I shall have you.
00:28:18White Keeper, move!
00:28:33Are there more?
00:28:34I wish you'll find out from this one.
00:28:48Tail, speak.
00:28:51Only dulcimer, dulcimer.
00:28:57There are greater of them than there were of the Viking.
00:29:02He says they're building. He says they mean to stay.
00:29:17Two weeks after landing in England,
00:29:21the Norman Orcs had pulled back from their village burning
00:29:26and were now fortifying a peninsula of our beloved Sussex.
00:29:36Duke William had sent out orders to attack the Orcs,
00:29:40but the Orcs were too strong.
00:29:43Duke William had sent out orders to destroy the rest of their ships,
00:29:48so they could not return to their homeland.
00:29:58They meant to stay indeed.
00:30:04And they meant to breed.
00:30:13And they would destroy every creature of English birth
00:30:18who would not accept them as overlords.
00:30:42I have heard.
00:30:45Far from here, way over to the west,
00:30:50there is a place without equal,
00:30:54rightly renowned.
00:30:57Few men reach this remote corner of Middle Earth,
00:31:01but the land there is so lovely,
00:31:05endowed with delights.
00:31:12Oh, no.
00:31:16No.
00:31:18No.
00:31:20No.
00:31:22They have all won. All of them.
00:31:29Please, please leave. It's just too young.
00:31:39No!
00:31:42No!
00:31:57English beast!
00:31:59Who else want to spit on you?
00:32:02I do.
00:32:05Husband! Husband!
00:32:12Husband!
00:32:21Husband!
00:32:36Husband!
00:32:38Ah!
00:32:40Husband! Husband, please!
00:32:43Judith! Judith!
00:32:44Please!
00:32:46Please!
00:32:47Please!
00:32:49Wise men, listen!
00:32:52No!
00:32:54Wise men!
00:32:56Wise men, listen!
00:33:00We are taking you to the priory, to the brothers of solitude.
00:33:04You will be safe there.
00:33:06I give you my word.
00:33:11Is she of your kin?
00:33:13She is the wife of a Norman who has sat by and watched us.
00:33:17Please, kill her!
00:33:22Kill her!
00:33:30Run!
00:33:35Run!
00:33:36Run!
00:33:42Let's split up!
00:33:44Go to the houses, come on!
00:33:46Go, go!
00:33:48Come on!
00:33:49Come on!
00:33:51Forgive me, I must save the child.
00:33:53Go, that way! That way, go!
00:33:59No!
00:34:01I told you, we should not accept the women alive.
00:34:04It was a good plan. It kept the men from mutating.
00:34:07It was against orders.
00:34:13Your lust for blood makes me sick.
00:34:31Come on!
00:34:48Alf, come on!
00:34:49I know they're going to kill me!
00:34:50No, Alf!
00:34:52They will not kill you. While I breathe, they will not.
00:34:55Come on! Run!
00:35:01Run! Run!
00:35:06Alf! Alf!
00:35:08Wait! Wait!
00:35:10Alf! Alf!
00:35:14Wait! Wait!
00:35:17It was but a child.
00:35:19A child?
00:35:24Take me.
00:35:25I'm not a child.
00:35:31Go!
00:35:33Go!
00:36:00Alf!
00:36:09I have ached for you, my heart, in the end tonight.
00:36:14And I miss you.
00:36:16I've ached for you.
00:36:18Silver and gold may make us bold and bind our jewels together,
00:36:25but love will stay till we are old and weary of endeavour.
00:36:31What was done?
00:36:35Judith?
00:36:36I'm always weary of endeavour.
00:36:52What was done?
00:36:56Judith?
00:37:07I'm home.
00:37:11I'm home.
00:37:37We must find Duke William and the rest of our army.
00:37:41They will be south of here.
00:37:43There will be battle at last.
00:37:45Good.
00:37:47I doubt you have the guts for it, mon baron.
00:37:54You let a huskarl go and a child you disobeyed.
00:38:00Your child will pay the price of your disobedience.
00:38:07As Drogo did.
00:38:10For his fathers.
00:38:18Although the invaders were our cruelest enemies,
00:38:22it should be known that not all of them were cast in the same mould.
00:38:30But then the orca were never only of one tribe.
00:38:34The Normans had pressed men of Brittany and other neighbours into their holy war,
00:38:40offering promises of land and taking families hostage.
00:38:56I will call for you, my love.
00:38:59There will be great forests in England to run through,
00:39:02and great rivers to fish.
00:39:05Your mama will cry,
00:39:07but you must dry her tears for us.
00:39:19You will see to it she is fed and served as befits a Breton noblewoman.
00:39:23Duke William would wish it.
00:39:25My Breton friend,
00:39:26I do not take kindly to instructions.
00:39:57Sister of Solitude,
00:39:59bring this child to join the sisters and the wife men.
00:40:02Will you keep this child in your care?
00:40:04I'm sorry, we have too many here.
00:40:07Sister, this is a child.
00:40:10We have too many here already. I am sorry.
00:40:13I am a huskarl of the royal guard. Now open this door.
00:40:17We do not open our doors to instructions from soldiers.
00:40:21That's why you brought your wife men here.
00:40:22You are right.
00:40:25Accept my apologies. We will leave you in peace.
00:40:31Wait.
00:40:52Come.
00:40:58Many of these women are noble.
00:41:00Good women of the town.
00:41:02Good wives.
00:41:04Fine daughters.
00:41:07They've been arriving here every hour and every day for the last seven nights.
00:41:13We've seen things here that we've never dreamt of seeing.
00:41:16Men may do such things that women would never dream of.
00:41:21What can be done?
00:41:24We soothe them as we can.
00:41:28Many will not take meat and choose to die of hunger.
00:41:33Many no longer speak.
00:41:35Glad I am to see you.
00:41:37Shh.
00:42:04Quiet.
00:42:05Quiet.
00:42:32What do you see?
00:42:33Sentinels.
00:43:03Give it up.
00:43:05Give it up.
00:43:33Get up.
00:43:37Hey, you men.
00:43:40Get up.
00:43:45Sir.
00:43:53Are you going to go?
00:43:55Are you going to go?
00:43:58You do not have to drink wine, it's here.
00:43:59Watch out for the horse.
00:44:01And the other.
00:44:03What do you want?
00:44:06What are you doing? Come here.
00:44:09What?
00:44:14Come here.
00:44:16What are you doing?
00:44:23The key?
00:44:27The key!
00:44:28The key!
00:44:29To the right! To the right!
00:44:33To the left! To the left!
00:44:34Retreat!
00:44:35Come on! Come on!
00:44:37I will not retreat, for Jesus Christ's sake!
00:44:39I will not retreat!
00:44:41Surround them!
00:44:43Surround them!
00:44:45Watch out! Behind! Behind!
00:44:49Cover your sides!
00:44:52Come on!
00:44:54Come on!
00:45:03Ah!
00:45:06Ah!
00:45:07Ah!
00:45:08Ah!
00:45:19They say they are surrounding us!
00:45:22If we don't go now, we'll be trapped!
00:45:25Retreat!
00:45:33Behind you!
00:45:34They're just coming up!
00:45:35They've been surrounded!
00:45:49Psst.
00:45:50Wake up.
00:45:54I met a party of men from Anglia on the road.
00:45:56They go to the hill at Hastings.
00:45:58Come. Your wife, ma'am, will be safe.
00:46:00No. I've done my war work.
00:46:03Do you mind the days beyond the battle, new husband,
00:46:06when you must tell your kin that you sat in a high tower
00:46:09and watched England burn?
00:46:11I will stay with my wife, ma'am.
00:46:13Go with him.
00:46:15No.
00:46:16The battle will be swift.
00:46:18We will rebuild our house.
00:46:24Don't be long.
00:46:32This battle, love
00:46:38This battle, love
00:46:48Declines, I'm
00:46:55Declines, I'm
00:47:02Declines, I'm
00:47:08The sea and the sea
00:47:12O'er us is rising
00:47:15The battle cry
00:47:18The battle cry
00:47:20Oceans upon the horn
00:47:24You and I
00:47:26Hath suffered three to one
00:47:293Lz 6.49 x (-0.50), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x (-0.00), 3S 4.30 x --0.00, 3S 4.30 x --0.00, 3S 4.30 x --0.00, 3S 4.30 x --0.00, 3S 4.30 x --0.00, 3S 4.30 x --0.00, 3S 4.30 x --0.00, 3S 4.30 x --0.00, 3S 4.30 x -
00:47:590.00, 3S 4.30 x (-0.00.)
00:48:07So do English have the hill?
00:48:12We have God.
00:48:19Thus, the battle lines had been ordered.
00:48:23massed below the hill upon which the English stood proud.
00:48:30And behind that hill, called Senlac, lay the Norman prize, the green and bounteous fields
00:48:40of England.
00:48:41I swear before this company that I will fight to the death for my King, if I must die for
00:48:50my Lord shall die, I shall take his place and fight as he would have fought.
00:49:19He shall remind me of this pledge made here before my kin.
00:49:31Archers, draw!
00:49:35Loose arrow!
00:49:53Archers, draw!
00:49:57Loose arrow!
00:50:01Archers, draw!
00:50:11Archers, draw!
00:50:13The third almighty battle-clash of 1066 had begun.
00:50:21The hail of arrows upon the shield wall failed to shatter its strength or draw the English
00:50:26down from the hill.
00:50:29Now it was time for the weapon most fated and most feared in the Norman armoury.
00:50:36The one brought at such cost across the whale road.
00:50:51Come away!
00:50:53Come away!
00:50:59Come away!
00:51:10They're coming!
00:51:30Come back!
00:51:56Come on!
00:51:59Come on!
00:52:01Do they intend just to bore us to death?
00:52:32Why do they stand on the hill?
00:52:34Why do they not fight?
00:52:38We need a champion.
00:52:41But you could wish a challenger to draw out the English in single combat.
00:52:47Such a gesture of commitment will bring you rich reward.
00:52:52Not me, mon Baron.
00:52:55Our champion must be a man of noble birth.
00:53:02Hey!
00:53:04Bastard!
00:53:13Why?
00:53:21Make sure the Duke knows who I was and who am I killing for us.
00:53:32No!
00:53:34No!
00:53:36No!
00:53:50One English!
00:53:52One English!
00:53:54The nobility!
00:53:57Man of rank, he said.
00:54:03Let it be me.
00:54:07Vodka! Vodka! Vodka! Vodka!
00:54:26Vodka!
00:54:56Vodka!
00:55:26Vodka!
00:55:28Vodka! Vodka! Vodka!
00:55:54You must let me win, English.
00:56:02Think slower.
00:56:04Or let me appear valiant.
00:56:07My family will live.
00:56:11Even if my soul will not.
00:56:25No!
00:56:27No!
00:56:29No!
00:56:31No!
00:56:33No!
00:56:35No!
00:56:54Normandy!
00:57:11It was an unexplained yet noble sacrifice the Norman victor would make that morning.
00:57:20Perhaps both men of rank shared a common goal.
00:57:25Both, in different ways, had died so that others could live.
00:57:33Vodka, you were the bravest of your child.
00:57:51Every Englishman who shared your oath vowed to avenge your untimely death.
00:57:58Let the Norman orcs come as surely they would.
00:58:03On horse, on foot, en masse.
00:58:08Vodka!
00:58:15Shieldboard!
00:58:28Charge!
00:58:51I've finished it!
00:58:59Let them through!
00:59:03Let them through! Let them through!
00:59:20Wave after wave of Norman assault still could not take our hill.
00:59:29Charge!
00:59:34The duke who would be conqueror, they say, was somewhere in the thickest of the fighting.
00:59:40And then, such is the confusion of battle, a rumour spread amongst the groans of the dying.
00:59:49Charge!
00:59:56The duke is dead! He's slain Passadon!
00:59:59Believe me, he's dead. Passadon!
01:00:02The duke is dead!
01:00:06No! No!
01:00:13Oh, how sweet the taste of victory must have been.
01:00:18How bitter for the Norman invaders.
01:00:21Let's drive them into the sea! For Arkham!
01:00:24No, no, no!
01:00:25Come, make haste! Do not break the wall!
01:00:28Sparta, it's done!
01:00:30Do not trust the Normans!
01:00:31Do not break that wall!
01:00:33He's dead! He's dead!
01:01:04What had seemed like a retreat, revealed itself to be a trick to lure the English from the safety of the hill.
01:01:15Duke William was not dead.
01:01:18And for the first time that day, the Norman horsemen could harness their deadly advantage.
01:01:34So many brave Englishmen met their doom below the hill.
01:01:40None more beloved than the cowardly farmer who became a Haskal and saved my life.
01:02:03A Norman trick had taken too many from us, leaving few weaponed men to stand alone against the treacherous tide.
01:02:34So, finally, the tale of the little people at the fateful Battle of Hastings brings us to the plight of the king himself.
01:02:45Harold now knew that his army was weakened and that every fighting man would be required to hold the hill.
01:02:52That would include two of his brothers, his son, and perhaps even his lover, Edith Swanbeck.
01:03:12The Norman orcs kept coming, little waves bent on probing the wall for weakness.
01:03:22But they could not be stopped.
01:03:37Stay behind this shield. Listen to me. Stay behind this shield.
01:03:44Watch it! I want no more charges!
01:03:52Stop! Stop!
01:03:55Stop!
01:03:57You!
01:03:59Stop!
01:04:04Stop!
01:04:06Stop!
01:04:19Hour upon hour, the Normans threw themselves upon the shield wall in what now became a battle of endurance.
01:04:27Watch it!
01:04:32But they kept on coming. They kept seeking new approaches to the hill, determined to bombard the English from all sides.
01:04:43And then, most decisively, from above and below in the same rommie.
01:04:52Watch it!
01:04:54Stop!
01:04:55Stop!
01:04:57Stop!
01:05:03Stop!
01:05:06Stop!
01:05:12Watch it!
01:05:14Stop!
01:05:16Stop!
01:05:20Stop!
01:05:22Stop!
01:05:23How in detail it came to pass that the Normans prevailed on that day at Hastings will forever be shrouded in blood mist.
01:05:35But what is clear is that these orcs were truly demons, with no fear and no pity.
01:05:53Stop!
01:06:09Bring up your land, your home and your war. Your fighting is done.
01:06:24What is known for sure is that by dusk the invaders finally broke the shield wall for good and poured through.
01:06:37And after defeating the mighty Vikingr and running the length of our country, not once, but twice, the exhausted farmers of England stood little chance.
01:06:54The fate of our warrior king remains unclear to this day.
01:07:07Some gaze upon the conqueror's famed cloth of Bayeux and see him slain by an arrow to the eye.
01:07:16Harold the King is killed, it says.
01:07:21But others say that he is this bloodied figure, lain low by a horseman.
01:07:35That four Norman knights, crazed with bloodlust, beset the body of the kingship, disemboweled him, gilded him.
01:07:47And then beheaded him.
01:08:18Ah!
01:08:24Ah!
01:08:26Ah!
01:08:30Ah!
01:08:37Ah!
01:08:38Ah!
01:08:44Annie!
01:08:46Have you seen my husband?
01:08:55Have you seen my husband?
01:09:01Um.
01:09:03Have you seen your kid? Have you seen your kid?
01:09:05Please.
01:09:06Please.
01:09:07Please.
01:09:18Ah!
01:09:25No.
01:09:28Ah!
01:09:35Ah!
01:09:43Ah!
01:10:05Ah!
01:10:08Ah!
01:10:13Ah!
01:10:17Ah!
01:10:19Ah!
01:10:23Ah!
01:10:25Ah!
01:10:36The bastard orca left five thousand Englishmen unburied upon Senlac Hill for ten long years.
01:10:58And within a lifetime, not a single hide of Sussex had an English owner.
01:11:05Ah!
01:11:07Ah!
01:11:09There is some pleasant land up where we came ashore.
01:11:13Good fields, good rivers.
01:11:17We can settle there.
01:11:21How many sons do we have?
01:11:23Six.
01:11:27We will have land for another time.
01:11:33Ah!
01:11:34Woman!
01:11:43Harold alone was permitted a burial.
01:11:47And so the tribute goes.
01:11:50You rest here, Harold that was a king, that you still may guard the shore and sea.
01:11:58We do not despise you, kingship.
01:12:02But we grieve and mourn for you.
01:12:25England was never the same again.
01:12:32The priories could not remain a refuge forever.
01:12:36And after more unkindnesses too cruel to be related,
01:12:41the wife-men of the South were set to making the story that would be told.
01:12:48Thus shining great light upon the Duke who became William,
01:12:54the conqueror of our precious peace of Middle-earth.
01:13:01My dear past oceans, long ago,
01:13:08my death has separated one in another.
01:13:14Now I have reached the end of the bitter sorrow of my child days.
01:13:21Our village of Crowhurst became the home of others who meant to stay.
01:13:32Our families would never again bring in the barley.
01:13:39We set to wandering in search of a new home.
01:13:44And it had once been told to me,
01:13:48that forsooth my child fear perhaps,
01:13:52that the way to the West is a place rightly renowned.
01:13:57A remote part of Middle-earth,
01:14:01where the land is so lovely,
01:14:04endowed with delights and earth's sweetest scents.
01:14:27A team of men whose exploits became a thing of legend.
01:14:50We go behind the most successful secret army of all time, the SAS.
01:14:54Commando, Wednesday night here on Warforged at 10.
01:14:57Next though the time team go in search of a missing part of a house
01:15:00with a violent past after the break.
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