The Counting Thread

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971 - Saint Swithun's body is moved into an indoor shrine (he was previously buried outside). The ceremony is said to have been marred by 40 days of torrential rain.
 
981 - The Viking explorer Eric the Red-haired leaves Norway to survey west of Iceland. He finds land and calls it Greenland. Hundreds of land-starved Vikings board longships and head west for this so-called "Greenland".
 
963 - Richard ('the Good') II, Duke of Normandy the born - father of Robert the Magnificent and grandfather of William the Conqueror. They liked their complimentary monikers didn't they.

Hmm, maybe? Robert was also known (more appropriately), as Robert the Devil, and his son (very aptly) as William the Bastard. He only became the Conquerer after 1066 - the BASTARD!!
 
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