| Hastings pleasantly offered to act in the capacity of general baiter and taker off of fish. |
| It draws on his experiences while working for a builder in Hastings, where he settled in 1902 after various wanderings. |
| The last Anglo-Saxon king of England lay dead on a battlefield near Hastings, an arrow through his eye. |
| The resurgence of the Anglo-Saxons under Harold at Hastings hides from view an earlier period of Viking domination of England. |
| He distinguished himself in Normandy's wars with its neighbours prior to 1066, and also shone at Hastings. |
| That is not to say that the English thegn was any less formidable than the Norman knight, as Hastings was to show. |
