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My name is Jamie and this is episode 412, The B-word.

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The Godwinsons are back in England.

Harold Sons, along with a fleet of 64 Irish ships loaded down with fighters, have just hit

the shores.

And it seems like they were students of history, because they were taking up the family business.

Now, these days, if you say Godwinson, you think of a king.

But that only happened once, and it only lasted for about 10 months.

The old stand by, however, the thing a Godwinsonson could count on like money in the banana stand,

was piracy.

Don't believe me?

Let's run through it real quick.

When Wolffnoth hit a breaking point with Atholred and Edrick Strayona, he took his ships

and he became a pirate.

When his son, Godwin, found himself on the outs with Edward the Confessor.

He took his ships and he became a pirate.

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