. The book of the Bayeux tapestry : . the leg below the suit of mail, and in the hands of one ofthe English you see the round shield with a boss, which will reappear inthe scene of the death of Harold. I would say tentatively and subjectto correction, that this symbolised something old-fashioned in the Saxonaccoutrement. In the border below, the same type of accoutrement, theround shield with the boss, reappears twice among the dead bodies. Gyrthand Lewine were standing near Harold, and one chronicle makes Williamhimself fell Gyrth with a blow of his mace, but there is nothing of thisin the em
. The book of the Bayeux tapestry : . the leg below the suit of mail, and in the hands of one ofthe English you see the round shield with a boss, which will reappear inthe scene of the death of Harold. I would say tentatively and subjectto correction, that this symbolised something old-fashioned in the Saxonaccoutrement. In the border below, the same type of accoutrement, theround shield with the boss, reappears twice among the dead bodies. Gyrthand Lewine were standing near Harold, and one chronicle makes Williamhimself fell Gyrth with a blow of his mace, but there is nothing of thisin the embroidery. There is no figure armed with a mace and no mentionof William. The 68th panel is the liveliest attempt the artist makesanywhere to represent the heat of the attack. It speaks for itself in theexaggerated catastrophes of the mounts and of their riders; but what shouldbe particularly noted is the representation of the Hill of Battle, the horsestumbling at the approach of it and the defence by the Saxon footmen uponthe 69
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