Dear Diary,
I’m walking from Tesco and while I'm walking, I think about the invasion of 1066. Then, BOOM!!!! I find myself in a boat without engines; the people around me stank and were stuffing themselves with the things I bought. Those guys spoke some sort of Latin. And are those the cloth that the normans use to paint called bayeux tapestry i studied about???
Early 27 September 1066, the English Channel
Dear Diary,
I can’t figure out where the heck I am. All I know is that it is very early in the morning and the soldiers are covered with armour, carrying spears and things like that. There is a very large fleet of ships. I think I am in the Norman Invasion of 1066 I was thinking about!!! We land in a place locals call Pevensey and we camped there.
14 October 1066, Seglac Lake Hill
Dear Diary,
Harold Godwinson has recently defeated the Norwegians and was marched 400 km in 15 days from York. The whole of the Saxon army was exhausted. Harold knew he had lost his best men at Stamford Bridge and yet he didn’t hesitate to meet us.
It was a misty morning and the two armies faced each other on Seglac Lake, meaning bloody lake. We were on the foot of the hill, so the enemy had an advantage over us. The Housecarls were there, about 3000 of them. They had heavy axes and these could split a man in two in one blow. Also they wore a chainmail they call a byrnie, their sleeves were left short to enable freedom in their arm movement literally meaning they would split up more soldiers.They wore a pointed helmet so it protects them against swords. .William ordered the infantry to move up to break the shield wall that the Saxons had made up. After that, the Archers were ordered to open fire against the Saxons. The arrow either harmlessly overshot the heads of the Saxons or even more harmlessly struck the ground meters away from their feet. The fight was so closely packed somebody stabbed the same Saxon soldiers about 15 times thinking that he was alive when he was actually dead; because he didn’t have the time to fall to the ground. That's just how closely packed the battle was. 
William fed up with that seemingly harmless attack noticed that the only way to win the Saxons was to break their shield wall. Then, all of a sudden, we watched the Britons simply turn around and run away down hill, exactly the way he wanted. The Saxons, not resisting the temptation, broke the shield wall of which by then had worked so well. The archers shot their arrows upwards and they nosedived on the Saxon army, killing Harold by the eye.Then the rest of our army ran down the hill, joining the rest of the Norman army to come back with a trap. Shortly afterwards the Saxons found them selves in a trap. The same trap they did at Stamford Bridge against the Vikings. They were quickly surrounded and slaughtered without mercy. We won the battle of Hastings!!!!
Suddenly something hit me in my head.
Dear Diary,
I found myself sitting on the road in front of my house. I ran as fast as I could to my house to tell my mum.
My mom said, “Why did you take so long? Don’t tell me you went back to 1066 to take part in the Battle of Hastings or you fought side-by-side William the Conqueror. That will be a dumb excuse.”
“Actually, yes, ” I say.
She won’t believe what I have just been through.
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