Edward's instructions to Harold. Bayeux Tapestry: First Scene: King Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson at Winchester. The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth measuring approx 70 metres (230 ft) long and 50 centimetres (20 in) tall. It depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

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