English Heritage, which manages the site, has already sold all 16,000 spectator tickets for the two days. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reenactors at a Battle of Hastings encampment in Hyde Park, London. Harold was almost certainly cut down with battle-axe blows by mounted Normans, and was found in a heap of the bodies of his housecarls, his closest bodyguards. The outcome is far less certain for the grudge match, fought by the reenactors for their own satisfaction in the evening, after most of the spectators have gone. “Anyone who can still stand, and has the experience – you don’t want the raw recruits in an unscripted battle – can join in,” Kinrade said.

Source: The Guardian October 14, 2016 04:52 UTC