Unstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux Tapestry

A king with no children needs a plan. Edward the Confessor has restored the Anglo-Saxon monarchy, after decades of Danish rule. But he is celibate. He is getting older. He has to name a successor. He dispatches Harold Godwinson, his brother-in-law: this mustachioed rider, the hunter with the hawk. H...

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