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In most historical accounts the Battle of Hastings is shown to be so decisive that it ended all resistance against the Norman invaders and that William was the Normans were able to impose his iron their will on England. In factThe reality is more complicated, while the Battle was decisive it did not crush all resistanceto the invaders remained. The While the English nobles had submitted to William before his coronation as King in Westminster Abbey in 1066. , Norman control was not secure, and the sons of somewhat challenged. The Harold 's repeatedly raided the coast of England from Ireland and there were sporadic revolts against William I.  In 1069 the Danes landed in northern England to support a rebellion by the Northern Anglo-Saxon Earls. The Norman king was forced to pay the Danes to leave England. When the rebels refused to do battle, William the Conqueror launched a scorched earth policy, which caused a famine. This came to be known as the Harrying of the North and some modern writers claim that it was tantamount to an act of genocide against the local population. The myth that the Battle of Hastings was the end of the conquest is not borne out by the facts. <ref>Lawson, p 118</ref> Indeed it was only in 1070 with the suppression of the Northern Earls that the conquest of the Normans is said to be completewas completed.