After Stamford Bridge, Harold received news of the Norman landing and immediately began one of the most remarkable forced marches in medieval history, covering the two hundred miles from York to London in approximately four days. The pace exhausted his housecarls and gave him no time to gather the full southern fyrd, a decision that would prove fatal at Hastings. Historians have debated ever since whether rest would have changed the outcome.
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