Seventeen years later Isabelle visits Drayton Manor and is greeted by Bardolfe.  All parties are reconciled.   In a final act of love, Cynewyn brings Le Roi to visit his master for the last time.

Thurstan negotiates Cynewyn’s release, William confronts Odo, and Thurstan asks Cynewyn to be his wife.  On the ride back to Drayton, the lovers quarrel, then are unexpectedly attacked.

Aelfgyva and Vital wed and, Bardolfe begs Cynewyn to abandon her risky plan.   At the feast and big reveal of the Bayeux Tenture, all hell breaks loose when Cynewyn’s revenge is discovered.  Odo denies any misconduct, and William threatens maiming as punishment for slander against his brother.

Thurstan and Cynewyn become better acquainted.  Turold buys the freedom of Count Eustace’s grandson at Dover Castle,  Aelfgyva’s baby is stolen just before her wedding with Vital, and Cynewyn plots revenge on Odo.

In the aftermath of Odo’s assault, Bardolfe, one of William’s knights, pledges undying protection to Cynewyn.  Her cousin Morcar nearly loses his life and Aelfgyva reveals that she and Captain Vital are to wed.  Turold leaves on a secret mission for the Queen and Thurstan returns to England, at last.

Aelfgyva, a sweet Saxon seamstress, suffers from sexual assault by King William’s brother Bishop Odo in the cell next to Cynewyn .  Aelfgyva and Captain Vital connect while Turold, dwarf jongleur, entertainer and spy for Queen Edith, arrives and lightens the mood.  Bishop Odo has evil intentions.

The Bayeux Tenture survives a fire at the Bayeux Cathedral in 1200, is buried in a vault and forgotten for 250 years.

Its rediscovery brings it back into the light of the world where the story of the Battle of Hastings is recounted again.

In 1987, while Drayton Manor is being graded for a theme park, workers encounter an enormous stone sarcophagus.  Inside are the skeletons of a man, a woman and a large falcon.

Seventeen years later Isabelle visits Drayton Manor and is greeted by Bardolfe.  All parties are reconciled.   In a final act of love, Cynewyn brings Le Roi to visit his master for the last time.

Thurstan negotiates Cynewyn’s release, William confronts Odo, and Thurstan asks Cynewyn to be his wife.  On the ride back to Drayton, the lovers quarrel, then are unexpectedly attacked.

Aelfgyva and Vital wed and, Bardolfe begs Cynewyn to abandon her risky plan.   At the feast and big reveal of the Bayeux Tenture, all hell breaks loose when Cynewyn’s revenge is discovered.  Odo denies any misconduct, and William threatens maiming as punishment for slander against his brother.