Duke William of Normandy and his army arrive at Mont-Saint-Michel. Harold Godwinson saves the Duke and another warrior from the quicksands of the River Coesnon. The Normans besiege the castle at Dol. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruce’s The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.

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