All History Is Byzantine...

John Emerson writes:

Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Who Was the Fourth Wife of Leo the Philosopher?: In a different age the Byzantine chroniclers Benedikz and Blondal failed to mention that when Araltes left the royal guard, he returned home to become King of Norway, only to die in 1066 during his attempt to also become King of England. (Wherever those two mysterious places were, up North somewhere by Thule.)

But Harald Hardraed did get seven feet of English ground.