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The periodic comet blazed for weeks above England and Normandy in the spring of the conquest year. Astronomers east and west recorded it. English chroniclers saw an omen of doom. William of Normandy called it a sign of victory. The Bayeux Tapestry would sew it as a streaking star above Harold.
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