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Times photographer Jack Hill captures thousands of wintering birds in Snettisham as they visit the feeding ground at the Wash
King Canute was no softy. When England first resisted his claims to the crown he returned to Denmark, stopping only to return hostages in his control after cutting off their hands, ears, and noses.
He’s best known as the king who lost the battle of Hastings and died after being shot in the eye by an arrow (even though he probably wasn’t), but what we do we know of Harold Godwinson before that fateful day?
The Vikings reached as far west as Newfoundland, but did they also venture into Africa, the Middle East and Asia?