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Senlac

American  
[sen-lak] / ˈsɛn læk /

noun

  1. a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.


Senlac British  
/ ˈsɛnlæk /

noun

  1. a hill in Sussex: site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066

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Montague-Smith traces the line through Harold's daughter Gytha, who after the fateful day at Senlac Hill wandered to Denmark, where she met and married Volodymyr Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev.

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Even so, Harold's defenders almost snatched victory at Hastings, on the hill called Senlac.

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The temper of the English had rallied from the panic of Senlac.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green

The landing of William, and Battle of Senlac, 1066.

From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

How many Franks, one asks, followed the red banner of the Bastard to Senlac, or, leaning on their shields, watched the coronation at Westminster?

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb

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