It takes approximately 1400 meters of yarn to make a simple sweater and at least twice that to knit a "fancy" one. It also takes 4pounds of clean fleece to make the yarn.
For the confused: this is a reference to the time around the year 1066 when the English king died with no heir and there were three main factions fighting for control of the throne. The English claimant defeated the Norwegians but quickly lost to the Norman-French.
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