William the Conqueror

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William faces resistance to his new regime.

October 12th 1066, the day Anglo-Saxon England ended. Our journey, though, is far from over.

King Harold faces off against the first of the challengers for his throne: King Harald Hadrada of Norway.

Harald Sigurdsson, who would invade England to claim her throne in 1066, was, by his mother Åsta, half-brother to King Olaf Haraldsson, aka St Olaf, by whose side he fought at Stiklestad in 1030 when Olaf unsuccessfully tired to reclaim the Norwegian throne from Cnut.