Грамматика и Лексика

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Harold, by contrast, had just won a hard-fought battle at Stamford Bridge, near York, where he had defeated another claimant to the English throne, Harald Hardrada, King of Norway. When the news of William’s landing reached Harold, he rushed his battle-weary army back south, ____________ only briefly in London to gather extra forces.