And such a fight King Harold led against that force, that his brother, and the Norwegian King, and every chief of note in all their host, except the Norwegian King's son, Olave, to whom he gave honourable dismissal, were left dead upon the field.

The victorious army marched to York.

As King Harold sat there at the feast, in the midst of all his company, a stir was heard at the doors; and messengers all covered with mire from riding far and fast through broken ground came hurrying in, to report that the Normans had landed in England.
The intelligence was true.

They had been tossed about by contrary winds, and some of their ships had been wrecked.

A part of their own shore, to which they had been driven back, was strewn with Norman bodies.