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Battle
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Opinion
I think we are coming up to my favourite day, a day that England does not celebrate; 'Battle of Hastings Day'. On the 14th October 1066 Harold Godwinson, King Harold to you and me, but Harold II to England, fought William, Duke of Normandy. Nine hundred and sixty years ago those two had a fight to see who would be King of England. Fortunately, William won. What? Fortunately? Yeah, Harold wasn't a very nice man and nor were his family. I think they were like the bankers in London during the 1980s and 2007 - 8.
The Battle of Hastings is the last time that England was successfully invaded by a conquering army and it is because of these Normans that we have lovely castles to visit and French words in our language. Never mind the dispossessed and the beaten, the down-trodden and the enslaved. Never mind feudalism and serfdom, we have nice castles to look at. There are even some in Wales! Hurray for the early idea of future tourism. But, by Goodness, it took a while and a lot of deaths to get to our favoured position. Of course, the modern population won't agree with me on this subject, after all we left the EU. All that hard work the Norman kings and taxes did to get us to be a central power in the modern world and we throw it all away with a vote. Shame! At least we could have had another bloody battle; a civil war or something on the subject, to honour the fallen on the 14th October 1066.
I am jesting. Time moves on and being attacked by Normans is still an open wound in the English to this day. Even the French remember it and have tried to eradicate English words from their language. So I say, let us not say 'ventilation' let us say 'windilation' instead.