Question: The opening scene to Hamlet is a bit...ghostly! Specifically, men are keeping guard over the castle of the King of Denmark. One man, Francisco, leaves

The opening scene to Hamlet is a bit...ghostly! Specifically, men are keeping guard over the castle of the King of Denmark. One man, Francisco, leaves his shift, and the guard Bernardo discusses whether the "ghost" has (again) appeared throughout the night with two other men--Horatio and Marcellus. Just then, the ghost appears. The men comment that the ghost looks like the old king who died (whose name was also Hamlet). The men know it to be the king because "Such was the very armor he had on / When he the ambitious Norway combated" (lines 60-61).
The question: At the bottom of page 1714, the men ask Horatio to tell what he knows of what happened between Old King Hamlet and Norway (the Old King of Norway, named Old Fortinbras). What is it that Horatio says happened between these old dead kings?
 The opening scene to Hamlet is a bit...ghostly! Specifically, men are

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