LYRICS
But Harold, always conservative in his tactics,
refused to allow others to follow.
So at this point,
he seems to have lost momentary control of his own troops,
who couldn't resist following the horsemen,
elated by the thought
that the Duke of Normandy was lost.
But William threw back his helmet
to prove he was very much alive.
He rallied the ranks of the Norman
centre around the rear of the pursuing Saxons
and set about slicing them to pieces.
The battle wasn't over yet.
It was gonna take at least six hours to decide.
The Bayeux Tapestry is shockingly explicit
in exposing the extent of the carnage and mutilation.
But it was the English army
that was eventually, and very, very slowly, ground down.
William began exploiting weak points,
settling into an alternating rhythm of archers and cavalry.
The arrows now shot high into the air and fell,
not onto the front line
but the heads of the unprotected men behind them.