He survived the most disruptive political transformation England had experienced in centuries.

He was buried in a Norman knight’s church with Scandinavian grave goods, in a coffin made from oak felled thirteen years after the battle that changed everything.

Who was he?

The science has done what science can do.

It has described his body, analyzed his teeth, sequenced fragments of his DNA, and reconstructed the face beneath which all these facts were once organized into a living person.

The name, the thing that his contemporaries knew him by, the word by which he identified himself and was identified, is gone.