What was the English Flag at the Battle of Hastings?
The English flags at Hastings would have been The Fighting Man (Harold’s personal standard), and a white dragon (England’s national flag in the late Anglo-Saxon period). I think that’s correct anyway, lol btw – the Anglo-Saxons would have been calling themselves “English” for at least two centuries before Hastings. EDIT: The dragon flag was red and not white like I said earlier. It was the Dragon standard of Wessex – not to be confused with the dragon on today’s Welsh flag. Shock and Awe – I thought that the Norman flag was the Papal banner, given to Guillaume le Batard by the Pope to show his support for the conquest. The only viking war banner that comes to mind is “Land Waster” – the banner of the King of Norway at Stamford Bridge. Clive H – The Normans and Bretons etc. that made up William’s army would not have thought of themselves as French, but that IS how they were seen by the English. The Anglo-Saxons would also have seen themselves as “English” by the time of the conquest. Th
