Time Time appears to literally re-write history! Portskewett C4 30MAR2008
FCS
perhaps it's premature to be quite so critical
before the programme has gone to air, but we
now allegedly had a King Harold.
I thought he was Harald Hardrada, and this
was preserved in the accompanying text to
the Beyer tapestry as well as the records of
the Synods at Winchester.
It's just with the ubiquity of it it seems as though
either the team got it wrong or someone at C4
is over reliant on their automatic spellchecker
and hasn't built a sufficiently custom dictionary.
So Hey! Channel 4! The fatal last cyning of the
Anglo-Saxons prior to the fall of Great Britain
to the Francophone Norman hordes due to a
significant proportion of his infantry being some
way away at the Stamford Bridge near York
off what is now the A166 York-Bridlington road
(via Fridaythorpe, Wetwang and Driffield) rather
than the football ground of the same name which
is only a couple of days' march away from the
port of Hastings on the Sussex coast fighting
off the Norwegians when the threat from the
channel emerged was HARALD not Harold!
G DAEB
COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SIPSTON
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Jeff Lawrence
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The Battle of Stamford Bridge was fought between Harald Hardrada, the King
of Norway, and Harold Godwinson, the King of England (between January and
October 1066 - the Battle of Hastings), who was victorious.
Cheers
Jeff
Sam Nelson
2f4a62...@a22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, sipst...@my-deja.com
says...
> It seems pretty uniform across TV guides so
> perhaps it's premature to be quite so critical
> before the programme has gone to air, but we
> now allegedly had a King Harold.
>
> I thought he was Harald Hardrada, and this
> was preserved in the accompanying text to
> the Beyer tapestry
Bayeux. It's in Calvados.
> as well as the records of the Synods at Winchester.
Either I'm misreading you, or you're mixed up. The Harold that lost the
battle of Hastings was Harold Godwinson, and the reason his army had to
march from Yorkshire to the south coast was that before meeting William,
Duke of Normandy, in battle at Hastings, he had to meet Harald
Hardrada's invasion force (from Norway) at Stamford Bridge. Harald
Hardrada was king of Norway at the time.
> So Hey! Channel 4! The fatal last cyning of the
> Anglo-Saxons prior to the fall of Great Britain
> to the Francophone Norman hordes... ...was HARALD not Harold!
Er, no.
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SAm.
Enzo Matrix
Incorrect, I'm afraid. Harald Hardrada was the King of Norway. His forces
invaded England in September 1066 and were defeated by King Harold Godwinson
of England (Harold II). Harald himself died in the battle. Shortly
afterwards, Harold Godwinson's forces had to march south to oppose the
Norman invasion force, where Harold was also killed.
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Jeff Lawrence
news:BYmdnfny9JuGXXLa...@giganews.com...
> FCS wrote:
> Incorrect, I'm afraid. Harald Hardrada was the King of Norway. His forces
> invaded England in September 1066 and were defeated by King Harold
> Godwinson of England (Harold II). Harald himself died in the battle.
> Shortly afterwards, Harold Godwinson's forces had to march south to oppose
> the Norman invasion force, where Harold was also killed.
"Watch what you're doing with that arrow, you'll have someone's eye out if
you're not careful!"
Cheers
Jeff
Jeremiah Harbottle
> "Watch what you're doing with that arrow, you'll have someone's eye out if
> you're not careful!"
> Cheers
> Jeff
If they'd done a Health and Safety walkround beforehand, that would have
never happened.
Sam Nelson
nik...@nildram.REMOVE.THIS.co.uk says...
Risk assessments and offensive weaponry don't really mix all that well.
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John Cartmell
<e3d8e0d9-1691-45c3...@a22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, FCS
<sipst...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> It seems pretty uniform across TV guides so perhaps it's premature to be
> quite so critical before the programme has gone to air, but we now
> allegedly had a King Harold.
Two at least.
> I thought he was Harald Hardrada,
Someone else was that Harald.
> and this was preserved in the accompanying text to the Beyer tapestry as
> well as the records of the Synods at Winchester.
It might be as well to check the substantially different spelling of that
French/Norman town that displays the English/Saxon piece of needlework that
isn't a tapestry - especially if you're going to quibble at a non-mistake by
one letter! ;-)
> It's just with the ubiquity of it it seems as though either the team got it
> wrong or someone at C4 is over reliant on their automatic spellchecker and
> hasn't built a sufficiently custom dictionary.
Or they got it right and your history is distinctly iffy.
> So Hey! Channel 4! The fatal last cyning of the Anglo-Saxons prior to the
> fall of Great Britain to the Francophone Norman hordes due to a significant
> proportion of his infantry being some way away at the Stamford Bridge near
> York off what is now the A166 York-Bridlington road (via Fridaythorpe,
> Wetwang and Driffield) rather than the football ground of the same name
> which is only a couple of days' march away from the port of Hastings on the
> Sussex coast fighting off the Norwegians when the threat from the channel
> emerged was HARALD not Harold!
Oops again.
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Mortimer
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Don't you just love to see G Daeb cut down a peg or two! I'm sure from his
past postings that English is not his first language!
Mike Swift
<s...@ssrl.org.uk> writes
>Either I'm misreading you, or you're mixed up. The Harold that lost the
>battle of Hastings was Harold Godwinson, and the reason his army had to
>march from Yorkshire to the south coast was that before meeting William,
>Duke of Normandy, in battle at Hastings, he had to meet Harald
>Hardrada's invasion force (from Norway) at Stamford Bridge. Harald
>Hardrada was king of Norway at the time.
Yep, a bit of a bad day for Yorkshire leading to the victory of William
the Bastard and the subsequent Harrying of the North, (history speak for
the ethnic cleansing of Viking Yorkshire), fortunately he didn't get us
all.
Mike
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Marcus Houlden
wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:
This post might explain a thing or two:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.media.tv.misc/msg/d9267c7b23fe3b25?dmode=source
Personally I'd have though he was more into laudanum.
mh.
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FCS
> "Sam Nelson" <s...@ssrl.org.uk> wrote in message
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> > In article <e3d8e0d9-1691-45c3-81a5-
> > says...
> >> It seems pretty uniform across TV guides so
> >> perhaps it's premature to be quite so critical
> >> before the programme has gone to air, but we
> >> now allegedly had a King Harold.
>
> >> I thought he was Harald Hardrada, and this
> >> was preserved in the accompanying text to
> >> the Beyer tapestry
>
> > Bayeux. It's in Calvados.
>
> >> as well as the records of the Synods at Winchester.
>
> > Either I'm misreading you, or you're mixed up. The Harold that lost the
> > battle of Hastings was Harold Godwinson, and the reason his army had to
> > march from Yorkshire to the south coast was that before meeting William,
> > Duke of Normandy, in battle at Hastings, he had to meet Harald
> > Hardrada's invasion force (from Norway) at Stamford Bridge. Harald
> > Hardrada was king of Norway at the time.
>
> >> So Hey! Channel 4! The fatal last cyning of the
> >> Anglo-Saxons prior to the fall of Great Britain
> >> to the Francophone Norman hordes... ...was HARALD not Harold!
>
> > Er, no.
>
> Don't you just love to see G Daeb cut down a peg or two! I'm sure from his
Yup, I should first have googled the facts.
Thankyou all for supplying the correct information.
"Beyer" was a deliberate homophone.
> - Show quoted text -
John Cartmell
<53978525-50b1-4db3...@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
It doesn't sound the same.
> G DAEB
> COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SIPSTON
I really wouldn't bother with the (C). It isn't worth it.
Paul Hyett
<jo...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in uk.media.tv.misc :
>
>> So Hey! Channel 4! The fatal last cyning of the Anglo-Saxons prior to the
>> fall of Great Britain to the Francophone Norman hordes due to a significant
>> proportion of his infantry being some way away at the Stamford Bridge near
>> York off what is now the A166 York-Bridlington road (via Fridaythorpe,
>> Wetwang and Driffield) rather than the football ground of the same name
>> which is only a couple of days' march away from the port of Hastings on the
>> Sussex coast fighting off the Norwegians when the threat from the channel
>> emerged was HARALD not Harold!
>
>Oops again.
>
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Moley
> In article
> <53978525-50b1-4db3...@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
> FCS <sipst...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SIPSTON
>
> I really wouldn't bother with the (C). It isn't worth it.
>
Yep, the content of the hundreds of lines that normally precede it are a
far more effective foil against any would-be prose poacher.