The English Game of Thrones is nearly at an end.

William the Conqueror had spent the three years since Hastings crushing one rebellion after another, culminating in the terrible Harrying of the North in 1069/70. Through tactical brilliance and sheer brutality, he finally must have sensed that the Kingdom of England was truly his.

But, a last flame of resistance spat into life in the form of a dispossessed English thegn, named Hereward. This was the Anglo-Saxon last stand.

Find out how close William came to giving in to Hereward, how Vikings, again, nearly turned the tide, and how the victors and vanquished alike continued to play a game of thrones in other European states for centuries to come.

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