. The book of the Bayeux tapestry : . 4G evidently impressed the artist, and he has tried to symbolise it. You getexactly the same thing in Wace : I have heard it told to my father thatthere were 700 ships less four. Then, again, the word Pevensey comes intothe Roman de Rou, though spelt Penevesal in that document. In the next panel (47), which is the disembarkation, the horses are againinsisted upon, and one curious point which I would remark, the un-steppingof the mast. There are not a few descriptions in the later Dark Ages and theearly Middle Ages which lead us to believe that the mast of
. The book of the Bayeux tapestry : . 4G evidently impressed the artist, and he has tried to symbolise it. You getexactly the same thing in Wace : I have heard it told to my father thatthere were 700 ships less four. Then, again, the word Pevensey comes intothe Roman de Rou, though spelt Penevesal in that document. In the next panel (47), which is the disembarkation, the horses are againinsisted upon, and one curious point which I would remark, the un-steppingof the mast. There are not a few descriptions in the later Dark Ages and theearly Middle Ages which lead us to believe that the mast of their smallcraft was not iixed : for instance, the Danes going up river above LondonBridge. Let me repeat again, at the risk of tedium, that the episode of thedisembarkation cf horses, which the men of the time seem to have been particu-larly struck by, makes the Tapestry follow Wace. Once landed, the army inthe next panel (48) fully accoutred—or rather patrols of it—rides out to forage,. Jm
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